Will quit politics if BJP denies ticket to me : MLA Raja Singh

Suspended Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh has made sensational comments, saying that he would quit politics if the BJP failed to give him a ticket to contest from the Goshamahal Assembly constituency in the upcoming Assembly elections in the state.

He also claimed on Tuesday, 29 August, that his suspension from the saffron party would be revoked soon.

“I won’t join secular parties even if I die because I am a true Hindu and my ultimate goal is to achieve the dream of the Hindu rasthra in Telangana and India,” said Raja Singh.I will remain in the BJP or else I will quit politics for a few years and work for establishing Hindu rashtra,” he said emotionally, making it clear that he would not join the BRS or the Congress.

Raja Singh said this when reporters asked him whether he was planning to contest with the support of the BRS if he did not get a ticket from the BJP.Interacting with reporters, he said he would not contest even as an independent candidate or from any other party if the BJP failed to give him a ticket this time.Earlier on 21 August, Raja Singh declared that he intended to contest the Telangana Assembly elections from his old constituency.

He expressed confidence in getting a ticket to “win once again from the constituency”.“I will definitely contest from the Goshamahal Assembly constituency and will be the MLA again, he said.

The BJP suspended Raja Singh from the party a little more than a year ago — on 23 August last year, to be exact — over the objectionable comments he made against Islam religion in a YouTube video.He later took down the video as it led to widespread criticism and even violence in some cases, and the police took action against him.