Nothing to do with BJP in four years: Rebel MP

Pradeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 30

Rebel BJP MP from Kurukshetra Raj Kumar Saini on Sunday threw a challenge at the party, daring the BJP to expel him as he “had nothing to do with the party for the past over four years”.

“A few months after I entered the Lok Sabha after defeating sitting MP Naveen Jindal, I had informed the BJP that I was no longer its member as the party had betrayed the interests of the people, who had reposed faith in me. It is for the BJP to take a call on my membership,” said Saini.

He had recently floated his political outfit, the Loktantrik Suraksha Party. Insisting that he was a representative of the people who had voted for him in the 2014 parliamentary elections and not the BJP, which failed to protect people’s interests, Saini claimed that his fight was for social justice for all sections of society.

He categorically stated that he would not quit his Lok Sabha seat as he was elected by the people and not the BJP. “Mainstream parties entered into unethical alliances with a view to grabbing power. Our party will work for systematic changes to improve the lot of all sections of society,” he said. He asserted that his party would not enter into any electoral alliance.

He reiterated his party’s main promises such as 100 per cent quota in government jobs, accommodating all sections of society, one family, one job, taking care of the interests of the farmers and labour through MNREGA and abolition of Rajya Sabha, which had become a dumping ground for rejected politicians through the backdoor.

Saini asserted that if voted to power, his party would implement the two-children policy within six months. A new national population policy was the need of the hour as government welfare schemes would not make any impact till having two children became the norm, he added.