A Bahujan Azad Party has been floated by 50 "mostly" Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Caste IITians, who have left their full-time corporate jobs to devote themselves fully to politics. They say they will fight their first election only in 2020, starting with Bihar. In 2019 they will only do mobilisation work.

They have placed reservation for all categories at the top of their agenda (Brahman/ Savarna reservation?). They do not seem to have included minorities among them in any major way.

There are obviously strong reasons to suspect it is a ploy of the RSS to occupy the opposition space, for which they seem to be trying out several tactics, including encouraging discordant voices from Yashwant Sinha, Shatrughan Sinha, Kirti Azad etc, and also to break the vote banks of SP, BSP, RJD, LJP, HAM and RLSP.

This new experiment will be the new AAP or AAP ka Baap (BAP). Its beginning is a bit like that of Vikas Bharti or Vanvasi Kalyan Kendra to lure tribals to RSS. That was also started by four IIT graduates.