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ML Khurana superannuates from electoral politics

     New Delhi: Three months after being sidelined by the top brass of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), senior leader and former Chief Minister of Delhi, Madan Lal Khurana announced on Friday that he was quitting electoral politics for good. Addressing the media in the capital, Khurana, who has been at the centre of dissension within the BJP in the wake of party president L.K.Advani's controversial private visit to Pakistan, also rubbished reports of using a new front to make a fresh political foray. "I will not, will not, will not fight MP or MLA elections. I do not have a eye on the Chief Minister's post," Khurana, who was sacked from the party in August for his outbursts against Advani and readmitted later, said . "Please do not link the creation of this non-political front with politics," the former Rajasthan Governor said during the launch of a Poorvanchal Kranti Sangh set up for addressing issues facing migrants from the eastern parts of the country. The Sangh he backed, however, is headed by former cricketer Kirti Azad, another disgruntled member of the BJP. Actor-turned- politician Shatrughan Sinha, who is upset with the BJP for quite sometime, also attended the launch ceremony, describing himself as an activist of the Sangh.

    Khurana, who had a larger than life presence in Delhi politics for close to five decades, had been expelled from the BJP for six years by Advani on the recommendation of the party's Disciplinary Committee on September 7 this year. He was then accused of "gross indiscipline and criticising the party leadership openly" under Article 25 of the Party Constitution. The top brass of the party was particularly peeved over his action of going to media without raising his views in a party forum. The Committee, chaired by former Minister Ram Naik, had yesterday recommended Khurana's expulsion after he failed to reply to the showcause notice issued to him on August 29, nine days after he was suspended from the party after he repeatedly expressed his inability to work under Advani, sought Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's removal and demanded an apology from the party for the post-Godhra riots. He was then re-inducted into the BJP as an ordinary member towards the end of September at the behest of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee after he had apologised in writing to Advani. Since then, however, he had receded into the background.

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