Bishnoi, son of former chief minister Bhajan Lal, was suspended from the Congress after he floated his own political outfit in 2007.

The father-son duo were upset with the Congress leadership since Bhajan Lal was denied the chief minister's post after having led the party to one of its biggest victories in the 2005 assembly polls.

The HJC went alone in the recently concluded general elections and won just one of the state's 10 Lok Sabha seats. The remaining nine seats were bagged by the ruling Congress.

Bishnoi said that there was no rift between the HJC and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) over the division of seats for the next assembly elections.

The two parties had joined hands in June this year, and it was announced that in the next assembly elections the BSP and the HJC would contest 40 and 50 seats respectively.

They also announced that in the next Lok Sabha elections, after five years, the BSP and the HJC would fight four and six seats respectively.