Uma Bharti re-inducted into BJP, ahead of UP polls
NEW DELHI: Nearly six years after she was expelled from the party, firebrand Hindutva leader Uma Bharti was today re-inducted into the BJP that entrusted her with the task of looking after Uttar Pradesh which is going to polls next year.
Announcing her re-entry, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said Uttar Pradesh will be the main area of her work and she will have a “prominent role to play” there in the campaign of the party.
“The decision to reinduct her into the party was taken with consensus… BJP will get a new energy in Uttar Pradesh with Uma,” he said.
52-year-old Bharti was expelled for indiscipline and defying the BJP’s central leadership in December 2005 after she had objected to L K Advani’s praise of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Bharti had then formed her own outfit Bhartiya Janshakti Party.
Expressing happiness over her homecoming, Bharti said she was feeling like the proverbial bird of the ship, who leaves it only to come back again.
“Out of the party for five six years, I have realised that only BJP is my anchor and destination… In these six years I learnt that if one has to serve the nation and keep some ideological commitment, there is no option other than BJP. I want to forget the last five years I was out of BJP,” Bharti said.
–PTI
