With Assembly elections round the corner an offshoot of Hindu Mahasabha has decided to contest elections slated early next year.
The new party— Hindu Mahasabha loktantrik— floated by Yog Brahmarishi Dr Santosh Rai will contest all the 403 seats in UP. Rai has put a rider saying that if BJP announces Yogi Adityanath as the CM face its presence will be just a symbolic one. A former leader of the Hindu Mahasabha, Dr Rai, an eminent doctor who also runs a private hospital in Gurugaon, has already registered his party with the Election Commission and now has decided to contest assembly elections in UP, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Gujarat. he leader also a known face in the Bollywood and owns his own studio in Mumbai, has made a film — Godse: an assassination of Mahatma Gandhi—whose release has been delayed because of controversy. “My main effort would be to unite the old leaders of the Hindu Mahasabha under a new banner and fight for the cause of the Sarvakar ideology and Hindu rashtra. We feel that India should be a Hindu nation but not on the religious front but through culture and tradition. Hindu is not a religion but it is a tradition which should be adopted in the country,” he told reporters here on Monday.
He said that his party has a plan to contest all the 403 assembly seats in UP but if BJP projects Yogi Adityanath as the CM face then the party’s contest would be a symbolic one.” We are very closer to the ideology of Yogi Adityanath hence will support him in the elections,” he further stated.