50 IIT alumni quit jobs to form political party

A group of 50 alumni from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) have quit their jobs to form a political party to fight for the rights of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes.

The group, which is waiting for an approval from the Election Commission, has named their outfit Bahujan Azad Party.

The party, however, does not wish to jump the gun and aim for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

“We will begin with contesting the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections and then aim for the next Lok sabha polls,” Naven Kumar, a 2015 IIT Delhi graduate, who is leading the group said.