New Delhi: Even as he continues to target senior party leaders without mincing his words, dissenting BJP leader YashwantSinha has made it clear that he has no intention of quitting the BJP and said that the party can throw him out if it wants.

Sinha said he had been trying for an audience with Prime Minister NarendraModi and had sent numerous letters to him, but failed to elicit a response, something that prompted him to float a political action group called 'RashtraManvh’. 

He said one of the tasks before the Manch was to ensure that the NDA government's policies are aligned with the BJP's election manifesto.

"Why should I quit the BJP? I had toiled hard during 2003-14 when the UPA was in power. Let the party throw me out if it wants," Sinha told reporters on the sidelinesof a seminar in Kolkata on the Union Budget for 2018-19.

Sinha, who served as the finance minister in the AtalBihari Vajpayee cabinet, said the policies of the present NDA government were not in line with what had been promised in the election manifesto.

"My protest is to bring those back on track along the lines of the election manifesto of the BJP. I have been protesting for the last four years and this has culminated in the formation of the platform RashtraManch," Sinha said.

The Manch, he said, is a broad-based platform with people from many political parties and farmers' organisations.