IITians' political dream goes bust

POLITICAL NIGHTMARE: Lok Paritran splits, the breakaway faction is called Bharat Punarnirman Dal.

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New Delhi: It was a dream that was realised to bring about a “positive” change in Indian polity.

But a group of IITians, it seems, weren’t equipped enough to carry forward the burden of expectations.

Lok Paritran, the political party formed by a group of ex-IITians in 2005 witnessed a vertical split just ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

The breakaway faction is called Bharat Punarnirman Dal (BPD) and will take on Lok Paritran head on in the UP poll field.

The LPP has said the split is unfortunate and has alleged political conspiracy. He also said BPD - formed by some ex-IIT Kanpur students - was “misguiding media and innocent party supporters.”

The party also alleged that BPD working committee has illegitimately held the ownership of LPP's online community on Orkut.

However, party officials maintain the party will go and contest UP polls and is finalising candidates of Lucknow and Allahabad in next few days.

"We will contest the elections in the fifth, sixth and seventh phases in UP despite contemptuous act of spreading rumours against the party by some former party members, who have formed BPD," national president L P Tanmay Rajpurohit was quoted as saying.

LPP was founded in 2005 and became a registered political party in February 2006 and enjoyed had got a tremendous response in Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.