CHANDIGARH: BJP’s
Kurukshetra MP Raj Kumar
Saini on Friday announced his own political party — Loktantra Suraksha Manch. He will launch the election campaign with his first public rally in
Panipat on Sunday.
Saini claimed that he had given up on the BJP nine months after his election to the Lok Sabha in 2014 during
an interaction with mediapersons here. “It is for the party to sack me. I will not vacate the Lok Sabha seat,” the MP said.
His party, explained Saini, would contest the Lok Sabha and assembly polls on issues such as 100% reservation on basis of proportion of caste in the state’s population, family planning, one government job for at least one member of a family and abolition of the Rajya Sabha.
The new party, Saini added, would contest all the 10 parliamentary and 90 assembly constituencies in
Haryana.
Dismissing allegations of abetting violence during the 2016 Jat quota stir, he said, “It was not me, but certain ministers in the Centre and in the state who instigated a particular community to resort to violence just to make their point and to pressure the government.
‘Govt did wrong by promising reservation’
The first wrong that this government did was the promise of providing reservation to the people (a demand) which had been turned down by the Supreme Court. This showed the government’s weakness.”
All the backward classes had voted the BJP to power at the Centre and the state with a hope that it will work for their welfare, Saini said, adding: “The BJP failed to address our issues, hence we were forced to float this party.”
Attacking the Congress and the INLD for alleged nepotism and corruption, he said, “I wonder how the parties, which have become an example of promoting just a single family, speak about corruption. How can one believe those whose family members are in jail following their conviction in corruption cases?
“Unfortunately, this system of dominance of single families in the political system has murdered the institution of democracy.”
BJP’s Kurukshetra MP Raj Kumar Saini (File photo)
