The BTP founder said on Wednesday that his new organisation, the Bharat Adivasi Samvidhan Sena (BASS), was a social and not a political outfit, and added that he would soon announce under which banner he planned to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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The decision dashed the long nourished political ambitions of the children of the late Congress heavyweight Ahmed Patel, who had last won from Bharuch in 1985. While the seat has remained with the BJP since 1989, both the daughter and son of Ahmed Patel, Mumtaz and Faisal, have been aggressively staking their claims on the seat on sentimental grounds ever since their father s demise.