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No hurry to take on Chouhan: Uma
EXPELLED BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday denied speculation over her re-entry into the party, but admitted that serious meetings were held 8-10 days ago on the issue with prominent leaders of an organisation other than the BJP.
EXPELLED BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday denied speculation over her re-entry into the party, but admitted that serious meetings were held 8-10 days ago on the issue with prominent leaders of an organisation other than the BJP.
“I rejected the proposal and urged them to promote one more political front (Uma Bharti) so that if the present one collapsed, your ideology could exist,” she added, apparently hinting the organisation was RSS.
Unlike previous occasions, Uma Bharti talked at length and calmly with media persons in Ujjain. She stayed at the Bara Udasin Akhara at night and took holy dip in river Kshipra on the occasion of Somvati Amavasya.
On the issue of putting a candidate against Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in the upcoming Budhni by-election, Uma said her political front had not yet come into existence and she was not in any hurry.
Continuing her attack on the BJP, she said the government and the organisation both were working on a single point agenda - to uproot Uma Bharti. She suggested that the BJP leaders must come out of her shadow.
Ridiculing CM’s stand that Uma Bharti’s was not worthy of comment, she said the CM was following her wherever she was going, whether it was Rewa, Sagar, or Jhabua.
Uma alleged that government machinery was being forced to create difficulties in her Janadesh Yatra and said she has talked to the Chief Secretary to direct the Collectors accordingly. She was referring to Khandwa, where her supporters were denied permission to hold public meeting.
On the issue of claiming the lotus symbol and the flag, she said claim would be presented before the Election Commission but technical modalities could thwart their claims.
