After quitting the BJP, former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister, Gegong Apang on Friday announced his intention to form a new political party.
Apang had quit the BJP earlier this week after remaining in the party for four years virtually in the background.
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Asserting that he will not join any other party, Apang said, “I will float a new party.”
Apang resigned from the saffron party through a letter sent to party president Amit Shah on Tuesday. He had left the Congress and joined the BJP ahead of the 2014 general elections.
The 69-year-old leader from Arunachal Pradesh arrived in Kolkata to attend Saturday’s mega Opposition rally at the invitation of West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee.
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He praised Banerjee as a ‘great leader’ and expressed support for her initiative to defeat the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.
Apang was chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh for 22 years in two tenures – from January 1980 to January 1999 and again from August 2003 to April 2007.