Kalyan determined to launch new party on Jan 5

New and hopeful BJP president, Nitin Gadkari may wish to bring veterans like Govinda Charya, Kalyan Singh and Uma Bharti back into the party, but former UP chief minister and Ayodhya movement protagonist has wider plans to chart out an independent course.

New and hopeful BJP president, Nitin Gadkari may wish to bring veterans like Govinda Charya, Kalyan Singh and Uma Bharti back into the party, but former UP chief minister and Ayodhya movement protagonist has wider plans to chart out an independent course.

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Not caring for what is cooking up in the revamped BJP, septuagenarian Kalyan Singh is engaged in conducting one more experiment in the political laboratory. The former saffron leader is busy giving final touches to his plans on floating a new political party-yet again, in a an apparent bid to keep himself relevant and establish his son, Rajveer Singh into the State's politics. He will make a formal announcement about the launch of a new party on his 77th Birthday in Lucknow here on January 5.

Singh who is Delhi these days is nearing completion of paper work required prior to get a new party registered in the Election Commission of India and will in all probability move the Commission for the purpose on Thursday "We have almost completed all the formalities and expect to move the Election Commission tomorrow to get our new party registered," he disclosed to the Hindustan Times and added, "If everything goes as per plan, I will announce launch of the new party on January 5."

But is there still any possibility for his going back to the BJP? "Not at all" he retorted and questioned " When I have said that I am going to launch a new political party, where does the question of my going back to the BJP arise?" He said that he had taken a conscientious decision to float his own party rather than piggyback onto the BJP after consulting a large number of his workers and supporters.

He however, refused to divulge the name of the party and other related details "It will be altogether a new party with a fresh name and fresh agenda which you will know about only when formally launch the parry on January 5," is all that he said. When his attention was drawn to BJP president, Nitin Gadkari's first interview in the HT, wherein he had said that he would like Kalyan Singh and other senior leaders who had left the party on a bitter note to rejoin the BJP, Kalyan Singh curtly said he did not know who had said what. " Right now, my only concern is to get the new party registered," he stressed.

After, Kalyan Singh snapped his ties with the Samajwadi Party (SP) publicly cursing Mulayam Singh Yadav when the latter tried to distance himself from Babri Mosque demolition accused last month, it was understood that he would rejoin the BJP more so because he was lavish in his praise for the party and regretted having left it. Some observers said, Singh would re-enter the BJP only after the change of its guard as the Lodh leader, they pointed out had strained relations with the outgoing BJP chief, Rajnath Singh. But, things seem to have moved the other way, forcing the Etah MP to prefer to tread an independent path.