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Former AAP leader HS Phoolka was felicitated on Sunday, 13 January, for his legal battle for anti-Sikh riot victims at an event hosted by Union Minister Vijay Goel, who said the doors of the BJP were open for all "good" people.
Accepting his "closeness" with several BJP leaders, Phoolka ruled out joining any political party.
He, however, denied speculations that he might join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
"I am not joining any political party," he said.
"It does not matter that he was associated with AAP. He is a good person who did a good thing. That is why we are felicitating him. People ask me, if he will join my party. BJP wants all good people to join it," he said.
Commenting on Phoolka's resignation from AAP, Goel had said, "He quit AAP recently. (It is) better late than never."
Phoolka has avoided giving any reason for quitting the AAP and expressed his desire to float a non-political outfit in Punjab to fight the drug menace and the perceived politicisation of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC).
He, however, was averse to any alliance between the AAP and the Congress. Reports about a pre-poll tie-up between the two parties is doing the rounds, with none of them denying it officially.
Phoolka had said that the conversion of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement into a political party in 2012 was a wrong step. He has not declared his future political move, although he has announced that he would not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha election.
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