Independent MLA and former minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya is likely to launch his political party and contest the coming Lok Sabha election.
Raja Bhaiya was a minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party and Samajwadi Party governments in the past. He was Food and Civil Supplies and Jail Minister in SP government.
Sources said that his new party would be named ‘Jansatta Party’.
A leader close to Raja Bhaiya said in Lucknow on Thursday that the process for registering the new outfit was underway. He said discussion on the new party had already started on the official Facebook page of Raja Bhaiya.
The leader said that an application had been submitted to the Election Commission of India and three names had been given for the new outfit, one of it being ‘Jansatta Party’.
Raja Bhaiya is also slated to hold his first political rally at Janeshwar Mishra Park in Lucknow on November 30, where the announcement of the new political party would be made.
Raja Bhaiya is presently an Independent MLA from Kunda in Pratapgarh and is said to be close to the ruling BJP. He has good influence among Thakur politicians and voters in the state.