New Delhi: Former Congress leader Krishna Tirath, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and is now its candidate from Patel Nagar constituency of Delhi, on Wednesday said that Congress had lost its culture and losing ground across the country.
"I will not call my joining of BJP as a change of party but of sanskriti (culture). The country does not run when a person loses his culture and a way has to be found to take the culture forward. I found the inclination of BJP towards culture more, so I came here," Tirath said.
Tirath, who was a Union minister during the Congress-led UPA regime, joined the BJP on January 19 and will be fighting against Congress's Rajesh Lilothia and Aam Aadmi Party's Hazari Lal Chauhan.
On the question of infighting in the BJP, Tirath said, "There is no infighting in the BJP from this seat. All the members are working together."
Ever since the party brought in several new faces, the old guards have been sidelined and many of them declined tickets for Delhi Assembly elections. There have been protests outside the party headquarters and a few of them are even contesting as independents.
Listing the poll issues from her seat, she said, "Like other constituencies, the main agenda is having proper facilities and it includes water, electricity, schools, hospitals, security, roads, parks, parking facility, etc."
Unlike other state elections which the BJP has fought under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the party has announced a chief ministerial candidate for Delhi. The party has chosen former IPS officer and Krishna Nagar candidate Kiran Bedi as its chief ministerial candidate.
"The political situation differs from state to state," Tirath said about the party projecting Bedi as CM candidate.
But she refused to speculate how beneficial it will prove for the party. "It is for the people to decide," she added.
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