New Delhi: They may be cooling their heels in jail, but the ambitions of the 1993 blasts accused show no signs of cooling off.
First it was Abu Salem who wanted to contest elections from Mobarakpur in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh and now it is another prime accused - Mustaffa Dossa - who has expressed his desire to walk the corridors of power.
Dossa - alongwith some other convicts and former accused in the case - is going to form a political outfit.
"It was decided on Monday in a meeting inside Aurthur Road jail where the blast convicts are lodged that the outfit would be called 'Dalit and Muslim United Front," Dossa's lawyer, Shahid Azmi, was quoted by news agency PTI as saying.
"The party's aim will be to consolidate the victims of political oppression and bring them on a political forum," he added.
"The party would start with the elections to the local bodies," Azmi was further quoted as saying.
A TADA court hearing the 1993 blasts case has already convicted 100 out of the 123 accused, and will be awarding them sentences from May 18 onwards.
Most of the accused - convicted as well as acquitted - support the outfit, Azmi claimed.
Dossa, who was extradited from Dubai, is yet to be put on trial though.
(With inputs from PTI)
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