Uma Bharti

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Uma Bharti ( Hindi उमा भारती ; born May 3, 1959 in Dunda , Tikamgarh District ) is an Indian politician and current National Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

life and work

Family and early years

Uma Bharti was born in 1959 in Dunda in the Tikamgarh district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh into a farming family. She attended school through sixth grade. As a child, she showed great interest in religious texts such as the Bhagavad Gita , which led to her being viewed as a "spiritual" child. She started holding religious discourses as a child, which brought her into contact with Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia , who would later become her political mentor.

In her youth she describes herself as a “religious missionary” and is occasionally addressed with the Hindu honorary title Sādhvī , a respectful Sanskrit title for a female ascetic.

Political career

With the support of Vijaya Raje Scindia , Uma Bharti got involved with the BJP in Madhya Pradesh at a young age. It first took part in the Lok Sabha elections in 1984 but lost when the INC saw a surge in support following the assassination of Indira Gandhi . In 1989 she won Lok Sabha in the constituency of Khajuraho and retained the seat in the 1991, 1996 and 1998 elections.

Uma Bharti with Lal Krishna Advani , December 2003

Uma Bharti achieved national fame when she became one of the main figures of the controversial Ram Janmabhoomi movement alongside Lal Krishna Advani and others . With her encouraging speeches, she helped the movement develop its dynamism. In December 1992, she was one of several prominent supporters of the national Hindu Sangh Parivar movement who attended a rally in Ayodhya that turned into an uprising that culminated in the demolition of the Babri Mosque . Bharti was charged by the Liberhan Commission for inciting the mob to violence with her speeches. Uma Bharti denied that she incited the mob but did not regret it and that she was willing to take "moral responsibility" for the demolition of the mosque. She acknowledged that the BJP had gained massive political benefits from the incident. In April 2017, the Indian Supreme Court resumed criminal trials against Bharti and other BJP leaders. Bharti called on the BJP to no longer avoid responsibility for the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and to go to prison for it. She also denied the existence of a Sangh conspiracy and stated that she did not regret the demolition as it promotes the goal of building a new temple there.

In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, Bharti changed constituencies and won the seat in Bhopal . She became a cabinet member of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government and held state and cabinet positions in the Ministry of Human Resources, Tourism, Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Coal and Mining during Prime Minister Vajpayee's second and third terms.

In the 2003 parliamentary elections in Madhya Pradesh , Uma Bharti led the BJP to victory as candidate for the state's chief minister. She defeated her opponent from the Congress Party (INC) by a margin of 25 percent and won 173 of 230 parliamentary seats. She was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Madhya Pradesh. She resigned from the office of Chief Minister in August 2004 when an arrest warrant was issued against her for a 1994 uprising in Hubli .

In November 2004, she publicly fell out with Lal Krishna Advani during a meeting at BJP headquarters. This led to an expulsion from the BJP, which was revoked a few months later at the urging of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist organization. She continued to publicly oppose the leadership of the BJP and insisted that she replace Shivraj Singh Chouhan as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, which led to several warnings and ultimately to her expulsion from the party. In response, Bharti formed her own political party, the Bharatiya Janshakti Party . She stated that her party followed the ideology of the RSS and claimed that it had the support of Mohan Bhagwat , the head of the RSS. However, the party had no political success.

Bharti was re-admitted to the BJP on June 7, 2011. She was tasked with reviving the party ahead of the 2012 general election in Uttar Pradesh . In these elections she was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh in the Charkhari constituency. She was then appointed, along with twelve other people, to the position of vice chairman of the BJP and became part of a team to lead the BJP through the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. On May 16, 2014, she was elected to the Lok Sabha in the constituency of Jhansi by defeating Chandrapal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party . In the new cabinet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi , she became Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganges Renaturation from 2014 and held this office until September 2017. She has been Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation since September 3, 2017.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Sindhu Manjesh: Who is Uma Bharti? . NDTV. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  2. ^ The Worldly Ascetic . Business and Economy. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  3. ^ Biographical Sketch - Member of Parliament 16th Lok Sabha . Lok Sabha website. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c Powerpuff girls who rule Indian politics . India Today. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b Jeemon Jacob: Babri Masjid Demolition: Through the Lens . Tehelka. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  6. ↑ a b c Ramu Bhagwat: Own up responsibility, Uma Bharti tells BJP . In: Times of India , July 2, 2009. Retrieved December 6, 2013. 
  7. ↑ a b I take moral responsibility: Uma Bharti . In: The Hindu , November 24, 2009. Retrieved December 6, 2013. 
  8. ↑ Uma Bharti flays Kalyan for regretting Babri demolition . In: The Hindu , April 18, 2009. Retrieved December 6, 2013. 
  9. ↑ Babri Masjid Demolition: SC reinstated criminal conspiracy against LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti (en-US) . In: MicNode News , April 19, 2017. Archived from the original on April 20, 2017. 
  10. ^ Press Trust of India: Babri case: SC restores criminal conspiracy charges against Advani, Joshi . In: Business Standard India , April 19, 2017. 
  11. ^ BJP sweeps out Congress from 3 states . In: The Tribune , December 5, 2003. Retrieved December 6, 2013. 
  12. ↑ Uma 'happily' goes to jail ensuring party goes to town , Indian Express. Retrieved March 20, 2009. 
  13. ↑ Back to BJP . In: Economic Times , June 7, 2011. 
  14. ↑ STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2012 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH . ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA.
  15. ↑ Uma Bharti, Kalraj Mishra and Rita Bahuguna among winners . THE HINDU. March 7, 2012.
  16. ↑ Election Results 2014: Seven Union Ministers taste humiliating defeat in Uttar Pradesh . The Economic Times. May 16, 2014.
  17. ↑ GENERAL ELECTION TO LOK SABHA TRENDS & RESULT 2014, Uttar Pradesh - Jhansi . ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA. May 16, 2014.
  18. ^ Narendra Modi government: Full list of portfolios and ministers . In: The Indian Express , May 27, 2014. 
  19. ↑ Cabinet rejig: Uma, Rudy skip swearing-in ceremony . In: The Times of India , September 4, 2017. 

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SURNAME Bharti, Uma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunda , Tikamgarh District