Bangalore: Shankar Bidari, who is showing signs of veering towards the BJP, said on Saturday that he would decide his future course of action on October 21.

Bidari has ended his association with the Samajwadi Party (SP) within three months of joining it. He quit the party’s primary membership on Saturday.

Bidari, who started his political innings six months ago by joining the Congress, has already earned the sobriquet of a quick political turn coat as he is now on the lookout for a suitable political party for the third time in such a short time.

The former top cop met his well-wishers at a hotel here to discuss his future course of action.

His supporters at the meeting expressed their opposition to Bidari’s plans of floating a new political party and showed preference for aligning with a suitable party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Explaining the reason behind quitting the SP, Bidari said he was peeved by the brash way in which he was removed from the post of the president of the state unit to accommodate former Union minister Babagouda Patil.

“I came to know about it through the media and a party functionary in Delhi intimated it to me through an SMS. They did not even show the courtesy of speaking to me before appointing Patil as the state president. I would not have opposed it as I am not hankering for any post,” he said.

He also said he had enrolled about 35,000 new members for the SP and had drawn plans to build the party from grassroot level.

“But leaders like C P Yogeshwar are more interested in bringing former MLAs or ministers from other parties to strengthen the SP. My hard work has gone waste,” he said.

Replying to persistent questions about his plans, he said: “Any party will do after quitting a party like the Congress. The ideology of the Congress is good but its leaders are not. There is not a single political party that is complete or good in this country. I have to make compromises as there is no point in sticking to ideals. I cannot get 24 carat gold in politics, so I have to accept those who are a bit tainted also. So even a 20 carat purity is acceptable. I have undergone this slight change in my ideals after joining the politics,” Bidari said.

According to him, the 10 years of the UPA governance at the Centre has seen a huge slump in rupee value. “Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shindhe is talking of special recruitment for Muslims in police force when the Lok Sabha polls are just six months away,” Bidari said.

However, he refused to make any comment on the fight that is unfolding between BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. -IE