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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Uma’s new party will have “Hindutva” ideology

By Pankaj Yadav, New Delhi:

Uma Bharti, the expelled BJP leader, today said that the ideology of her new political party would focus on the “true Hindutva”, wherein nothing would be compromised if it came to national interests.

Citing reasons for throwing a gauntlet at the BJP leadership, she said that the party never entertained the real mass leaders and allowed “political managers” to occupy front seats. One by one, leaders having grass roots image were “sidelined ” in the BJP, she added.

Calling for the introduction of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), and the construction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya, she said that these issues had remained on the BJP agenda since 1980, but the party didn’t have the courage to fulfil the promises made before the public. “Perhaps, I will be able to fulfil these promises,” she added.

“When the Kanchi Shankaracharya Sri Jayendra Saraswathi can be jailed in Tamil Nadu as per the law of the land, so can the Imam of Jama Masjid, Ahmed Bukhari when he called for his arrest after tearing the Indian Constitution into pieces,” said Bharti.

Calling leaders of the former NDA Government “cowards” for not initiating action against the Imam, she said - “This is not the way the country can be ruled. I want no nonsense from the people belonging to the Muslims, Christian or other communities. They have to respect the sanctity of the Hindus because this is a Hindu rashtra.”

Uma also sang the “secular” tune. “In our country there are leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad Yadav, who have such big hearts that they talk of accommodating the minority communities in the country, only because they believe in real Hinduism,” she said while speaking at an impressive public rally held at the historic Ram Lila Grounds.

Joining Uma at the rally were some “secular” leaders from Uttar Pradesh like Swarni Singh of the Rashtriya Apna Dal and Indian National Lok Dal’s (INLD) Chautala brothers – Ajay and Abhay. Claiming their “full support” for her new venture, she said: “I have spoken to all these leaders and they have imposed full faith in my endeavour.”

She said as Atal Bihari Vajpayee had formed the BJP in 1980 out of the Jan Sangh, similarly she would be forming a new party (which she is yet to christen) “because the true leader of the masses were facing suffocated in the BJP”.

She said that the name of her party would be announced on April 30 in Chitrakoot, Varanasi. “I am seeking legal opinion about the symbol and the name of my party. On April 30 it would be placed before you wrapped in saffron,” she said.

She asked former Delhi Chief Minister Madan Lal Khurana, who has been suspended from the party, and Sanghpriya Gautam, who is still in BJP, to convey to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani that she had parted from them. Both Khurana and Gautam were present on the dais when this statement was made.

Comparing herself with “Yog Maya” the eighth daughter of Deviki whom Kansa couldn’t eliminate, she said that the BJP leadership tried to clip her wings too, but she revolted and this led to her expulsion.

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