Ex-BJP leader and Himachal Pradesh MP joins AAP

Ex-BJP leader and Himachal Pradesh MP joins AAP

New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Rajan Sushant, a parliamentarian from Himachal Pradesh who was suspended from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for anti-party activities, Saturday joined the Aam Aadmi Party.

"Rajan Sushant who fought against corruption within the BJP has joined the AAP," party leader Manish Sisodia announced here, as Sushant stood by his side.

Asked whether it was because of the expansion of the AAP and its popularity, he joined the party, Sushant said: "The AAP is the only hope which can rid India of corruption."

He was suspended from the BJP's parliamentary board March 2012 on the complaint of the state unit.

The MP from Kangra had openly criticised state party leaders, including former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal.

He was also axed from the party's state executive council in May 2011 for demanding a narco-analysis test of Dhumal and his then cabinet ministers over corruption.

Sushant was a minister in the state BJP government in 1998.

I hope AAP knows what they are doing.

I am very scared of taking any legislator from any of the existing political parties whether it be the Congress, BJP, SP or any of the other parties.

I know we do not have any known faces and we have to start from scratch but it is better doing that than depending on these people who use parties as they use toilet paper rolls.

We have seen the Binny episode and we have seen also the heartache even famous people like Mallika Sarabhai and Capt Gopinath cause when once they enter a AAP without an invitation, start criticising it.