JODHPUR: Disappointed at no support from any political party, specifically BJP, Asaram, lodged in Jodhpur central jail for allegedly assaulting a teenaged girl sexually, has decided to enter the national political arena. His political outfit, Ojaswi Party, floated by his son Narayan Sai, who himself is imprisoned for the rape charges, will be fighting the upcoming New Delhi assembly election.

"Our party would field candidates on all the 70 seats in the New Delhi assembly election, which is just round the corner," said Swami Omji, the national president of Ojaswi Party to the media here in Jodhpur on Wednesday.

He claimed that the next government in New Delhi was not possible without their support. "Even if we could not obtain majority, we would be in such a significant number that without our support, no government at New Delhi would be possible," Omji claimed.

The decision to contest the Delhi assembly election has been taken after a brief meeting of the party leaders with Asaram in jail on Tuesday. "We had met him in jail on Tuesday and only after his signal, we have decided to enter the political fray," said the national political advisor of the party Mukesh Jain, adding that the party also has plans on Jharkhand and J&K elections.

Holding Congress President Sonia Gandhi and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal responsible for implication of Asaram in this case as a part of a conspiracy hatched on behalf of missionaries, Jain alleged that the POCSO Act was promulgated with a sole aim of framing Asaram. "We would appeal to the government to review this act as despite its promulgation, there was no check on rapes has been reported as in New Delhi alone, the figure of rapes per year has shot up from 600 to a whopping 2400", Jain said.

He claimed that the then Police Commissioner of Jodhpur Biju George Joseph was transferred to Jodhpur just ahead of complaint against Asaram to help missionaries succeed in their alleged conspiracy to frame him.

