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BJP : Uma Bharati’s suspension revoked |
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BJP President L.K. Advani has revoked the suspension of former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharati from the party. But she may not immediately get the position of general secretary, a post to which she was appointed days before she was suspended. Party sources say that for the moment, she will be asked to campaign extensively for the BJP in Bihar.
Uma Bharati was suspended from the party on November 10 after she openly challenged L.K. Advani at a meeting of party office bearers. She alleged that senior leaders had planted stories against her in the media and that she was forced to counter them. When L.K. Advani asked her to sit down, she refused to oblige and walked out challenging him to take action against her. Within minutes, she was suspended.
Even as she got the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to bring pressure on Advani to roll back the suspension order, Bharti’s defiance continued in the form of letters she wrote to him. She openly criticised and made allegations against senior leaders such as Arun Jaitley, Pramod Mahajan, Sushma Swaraj and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi even while saying that a “daughter had been thrown out” on the auspicious day of Dhanteras (just before Deepavali festival).
In a related development, former BJP ideologue K. Govindacharya ruled out any “rethink or reevaluation” of his 2003 decision to quit active politics and not to take membership of any political party, including the BJP.
The ‘Swadeshi’ ideologue declined to comment on reports that BJP President L.K. Advani had hinted about his return to the party fold. He asserted Advani had not made any such offer and, hence, there was no reason for him to comment on it. “I had taken a decision not to become part of any party or power politics. There is no reason why I should change it,” the former BJP general secretary and spokesman, who had quit the party following differences with the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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