EXPELLED firebrand Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti’s ‘Janadesh Yatra’ is likely to provide oxygen to her parent organisation, the BJP in Mohammadabad where its candidate Alka Rai, wife of slain legislator Krishnanand Rai,, has been fielded in the bypolls to test the murky political waters.
Uma Bharti is scheduled to begin her ‘Janadesh Yatra’ from Mirzapur on February 6, the place from where the present BJP chief Rajnath Singh started his political career. The first phase of her ‘Janadesh Yatra’ is scheduled to reach Mohammadabad in Gazipur on February 8 where Bharti is scheduled to hold public rallies.
While the BJP leadership is yet to finalise the campaigning schedule of party leaders in favour of its candidate in the Mohammadabad bypolls, its arch rival the Samajwadi Party has geared up, mobilising public support for its candidate Gama Ram.
Surprisingly, Uma Bharti, who is embarking upon a statewide Janadesh Yatra from February 6 after her successful ‘Ram Roti Yatra’, is likely to solve the BJP’s problem by ‘indirectly’ mobilising support for Alka Rai, the BJP’s official candidate.”
Since Uma Bharti will be holding public meetings at Mohammadabad highlighting the failures of the ruling Samajwadi Party in controlling criminal activities, it is directly going to favour the BJP nominee,”, Ramasheesh Rai, former MLC and UP incharge of Bharati’s Janadesh Yatra told the Hindustan Times on Saturday.
Though Bharti’s speech’s may favour the BJP candidate in Mohammadabad,, her tone may not be the same in other places in the state where her Janadesh Yatra is scheduled to pass through.
Since Uma Bharti will be holding public meetings at Mohammadabad highlighting the failures of the ruling Samajwadi Party in controlling criminal activities, it is directly going to favour the BJP nominee,”, Ramasheesh Rai, former MLC and UP incharge of Bharati’s Janadesh Yatra told the Hindustan Times on Saturday.
Though Bharti’s speech’s may favour the BJP candidate in Mohammadabad,, her tone may not be the same in other places in the state where her Janadesh Yatra is scheduled to pass through.
It may be mentioned that Uma Bharati’s close lieutenant and former Union Minister of State for Coal mines Prehlad Patil had been close to slain BJP legislator Krishnanand Rai who was mercilessly killed along with six of his aides on November 29.
Patil had visited the slain legislators’ house after Rai’s murder and admitted at a press conference that he was very close to Rai. “ Uma’s rally at Mohammadabad when the campaigning has already picked up, is going to prove a blessing in disguise for the BJP, which expelled her from the party”, BJP insiders confided.
Sources said Bharti’s upcoming Janadesh Yatra was likely to upset BJP’s plans in other parts of the state where the yatra would pass through and this was the reason why some BJP leaders were urging party workers to keep away from this rally.