Uma: Yatra affects BJP?s ?managers?

EXPELLED Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti on Wednesday continued her tirade against ?some leaders? for corporatisation of her parent party even as she vowed to ensure that ?Hindutva? and ?development? went hand in hand in the country as ?tested? in Madhya Pradesh.

EXPELLED Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti on Wednesday continued her tirade against ‘some leaders’ for corporatisation of her parent party even as she vowed to ensure that ‘Hindutva’ and ‘development’ went hand in hand in the country as ‘tested’ in Madhya Pradesh.

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“There are some leaders in the BJP who have transformed themselves into ‘managers’ and the double standards of this party have exposed these leaders”, Bharti, whose Janadesh Yatra entered Varanasi last evening, told reporters on Wednesday.

Flanked by two former union ministers Prehlad Patil and Chinmayanand Swami, Uma Bharti said she was the first leader who allowed Hindutva and development to go hand in hand before and after she assumed office of chief minister in Madhya Pradesh.

“I am considered as the champion of the Hindutva cause—but at the same time I am of the view that Hindutva and development should be carried forward simultaneously”, she said, explaining that she was the first in the Hindi heartland- where politics revolved around caste and religion—to have introduced this concept during her campaigning for the last assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and also after taking over as chief minister of MP.

She said she was going to give a corruption-free and terror-free government to the people of Uttar Pradesh who were soft targets of criminals who looted and killed them at will.

Lashing out at some BJP leaders for their disinformation campaign against her, Bharti said she was not building pressure on the BJP leadership by launching the Janadesh Yatra, rather hers was the real BJP.

She said her Ram-Roti and Janadesh Yatra had not affected the BJP, but a few of its‘managers’ had certainly suffered.

“My yatras have severely affected the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Samajwadi Party and even the Congress in UP”, she said.

Bharti said after her 90-day Janadesh Yatra, she would decide her future course of action in Chitrakoot on April 30.

Earlier, Bharti was honoured with ‘Dharm Shree’ by Kashi Vidvat Parishad, a body of Hindu religious leaders of Kashi.

Later, in her speech at the district headquarters, she reiterated her resolve to form a ‘structure’—possibly a political platform after concluding the yatra.