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Uma Bharati saga continues |
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Rebel BJP leader Uma Bharati continues to blow hot and blow cold in her relations with the party leadership. In a letter to the party president, she has now set a condition for apologising to the BJP chief for walking out of a party meeting being telecast live. She said that the party too should say sorry to her. Uma Bharati said the party must apologise to her for describing her action as an act of indiscipline. In her second letter to Advani in three days, Uma Bharati said she is extremely sad for hurting him at the party meeting. But she demanded that the party should apologise to her for cleverly projecting her raising of issues like probity in public life, nationalism and swadeshi as an act of individual indiscipline. She said : “I am not craving for the revocation of the suspension, because I too have to think over it. It cannot be a one-sided decision, but a two-way affair.” She claimed that the issues raised by her were ideological and not concerning individuals.
Bharati alleged that an attempt to finish her politically was made through “off-the-record briefings” to the media.
Meanwhile, former Union Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi has questioned L.K. Advani’s decision to allow TV cameras to cover the party office bearers’ meeting. He felt that the episode, shown live on news channels across the country, would tarnish the BJP’s image.
The BJP continues to maintain silence on suspended leader Uma Bharati’s latest letter to party president L.K. Advani. Party spokesman Arun Jaitely said that the BJP would react to the letter if and when required.
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