New Delhi: Sacked Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh will lead the Lok Morcha, a group of Independent MPs who have come together due to "commonality of issues".
A Rajya Sabha member associated with the group confirmed to IANS that non-BJP and non-Congress MPs have come together and will be led by former Singh, a former union minister.
"The group is in an incipient stage and all the MPs have come together due to commonality of issues and views. It is good that Jaswant Singh will be leading it," the MP told IANS, wishing not to be named.
Former union minister and MP from Banka in Bihar, Digvijay Singh, former Jharkhand assembly speaker and MP from Chatra in Jharkhand Inder Singh Namdhari are among the members of the group.
Raju Shetty, MP from Kolhapur district in Maharastra, is also part of the group and is leading the party in the assembly polls in the state.
Journalists Prabhash Joshi and M.J. Akbar are also associated with the group.
Singh, a former finance and defence minister, was expelled from the BJP August 19, two days after the release of his book Jinnah--India, Partition, Independence, in which he held that Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah had been unfairly demonised in India.
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