Sacked BSP leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui floats new political party

Lucknow: Expelled BSP leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui on Saturday floated a new outfit, the Rashtriya Bahujan Morcha, with the aim of providing a political alternative.

Mr Siddiqui and his supporters held a meeting here on Saturday and decided to float a new morcha at a time when there was a “concerted move by vested interests to serve their personal motives”, a release issued in the name of Rashtriya Bahujan Morcha said.

The decision was supported by all those who took part in the meeting and the outfit would work to provide a new political alternative in society, it said. It would work towards providing political and social representation to all sections of society and establishing amity and brotherhood, the release said.

While Mr Siddiqui would be the convenor of the front, Brahma Swarup Sagar and O.P. Singh would be its co-convenors. When contacted, Mr Singh said more people from the BSP would be joining the outfit soon which would be extended in order to have a proper organisation. A public contact programme would also be launched for it in the future, he added.