The Indian Express
5 December 2009
Kalyan to float own party
Express news service - Saturday , Dec 05, 2009 at 0329 hrs Lucknow:
With the BJP leadership cold to his overtures, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh has decided to float a new political party which will “espouse the ideology of Hindutva, cultural nationalism, social justice, social harmony and development”.Singh said this on Thursday after a meeting with his supporters from central and eastern UP. On November 28, he had organised a similar meeting for supporters from Western UP in Delhi.
“The name and other details of the party will be decided later,” Singh said. “After the registration of the party with the Election Commission, I will go for a darshan of Ram Lalla at Ayodhya. The dates will be announced a week in advance so that all those who wish to accompany me may do so.”
At the fag end of 1999, after resigning from the BJP, Singh had floated the Rashtriya Kranti Party. This outfit was merged with the BJP in December 2003, after his patch-up with the party ahead of the 2004 Lok Sabha polls. Last January, Singh left the BJP a second time after accusing it of repeatedly humiliating him.
On November 15, while announcing that he was parting ways with the SP, he said quitting the BJP was his “biggest mistake”.
He claimed that in future, he would work for strengthening the BJP, for Hindutva and for the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya.
The BJP’s top leadership, however, is not enthused about accepting Singh in its fold in view of its past experience with him.
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