New Delhi, May 22 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, a Rashtrapati Bhawan communique said on Sunday. Bedi was BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in the last Delhi assembly elections, which the party lost to Arvind Kejriwal's AAP. Kiran Bedi was the first woman officer in the Indian Police Service when she joined in 1972. Her work in one of Asia's largest jails led to her winning the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.