Former BJP leader Ghanshyam Tiwari claimed today that newly floated outfit - Bharat Vahini Party - will emerge as the third front and an alternative to the ruling BJP and opposition Congress in the Rajasthan Assembly elections due this year end.
The party's focus will be to consolidate like-minded leaders and prepare to contest elections on all the 200-Assembly seats, he said.
"The party will emerge as the third front," Tiwari told reporters during a state-level meeting of the party, which his son recently founded.
He said the Congress and BJP pushed Rajasthan in the category of 'BIMARU' states in the last 20 years and the Bharat Vahini Party will emerge as an alternative to both of them.
Tiwari said he was in touch with leaders in rival parties and we discuss on developmental issues of Rajasthan.
Tiwari also said he will fight election from the Sanganer Assembly constituency.
On June 25, the five-time MLA had resigned from the BJP alleging that the state and the country were going through "undeclared emergency" for the last four years.
Three days before his resignation, the veteran leader's son Akhilesh had founded a political outfit 'Bharat Vahini Party'.
Tiwari has been criticising Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and the BJP leadership after the party's national discipline committee issued show-cause notices to him last year.
The notices were sent after the MLA alleged that the Rajasthan BJP had become a place for mafia and sycophants, while dedicated, loyal and qualified people were being sidelined.
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