Former Delhi Minister Raaj Kumar Anand, who had resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). "I offer my tributes to BR Ambedkar. Today, I feel like I have joined my own party," Anand said after joining the BSP.

Some reports say BSP may give him ticket from New Delhi Lok Sabha seat. Earlier this week, Anand called on L-G Vinai Kumar Saxena with a memorandum asking for his intervention in addressing “critical issues” concerning the welfare of the “poorest of the poor” in the city. He accused the AAP-Delhi government of being anti-Dalit.

The former Minister for Labour, Social Welfare and SC/ST/OBC, Anand underlined that he had resigned in the wake of “prevalent excessive corruption” in the government which led to the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.  The Patel Nagar MLA had announced his resignation both from the Delhi Cabinet as well as the party on April 10, accusing it of being “mired in the quicksand of graft” and “ignoring the Dalit community”.

“Serving as minister… I came face to face with the fraud being run in the name of the poor of Delhi and the incessant lies that were peddled…,” Anand alleged, accusing the government of charges ranging from flouting reservation norms for SC/ST/OBC citizens to overlooking them when it came to appointments on various posts.

Despite the AAP’s poll promise of regularising contractual employees, especially safai karamcharis who were mostly Dalits, Anand alleged nothing had been done in this direction.