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This is an archive article published on June 20, 2006

No place for vice in Uma’s party

I won’t have any vice, I won’t take dowry and I will hoist the flag thrice a day.’’ This is the code of conduct Uma Bharati’s fledgling Bharatiya Jan Shakti Party will make its ‘‘committed cadres’’ abide by.

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I won’t have any vice, I won’t take dowry and I will hoist the flag thrice a day.’’ This is the code of conduct Uma Bharati’s fledgling Bharatiya Jan Shakti Party will make its ‘‘committed cadres’’ abide by.

The workers will be nominated once the party’s enrolment drive ends on June 30, two months after BJSP was formed in Ujjain. ‘‘Like the Communist party, these workers will be given cards,’’ Bharati told The Indian Express on Monday. The code of conduct will be formally accepted at the party’s national executive committee meeting. According to party national general secretary Raghunandan Sharma, the first batch of card-holders will be nominated but the subsequent batches will comprise only of those who prove themselves eligible for the status.

The card-holders will have to commit a few years of their life in serving the party but there will be no compulsion on them to remain unmarried unlike the RSS pracharaks. ‘‘I am against workers remaining single. If they don’t want to marry, they should take sanyas,’’ Bharati said.

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Bharati is apparently trying to please the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh by ‘‘sticking to its ideological core which the BJP abandoned.’’ Bharati, however, refrained from making any comment on her relationship with the RSS, saying ‘‘it’s an ideological and personal matter.’’ The BJS will highlight issues like terrorism, infiltration, national integrity and the the common civil code for a fortnight leading to the birth anniversary on July 6 of founder of Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee.

The party has made it clear that it won’t have a cell for minorities as it does not believe in minority appeasement. It has also committed itself to building a ram temple at Ayodhya. She has also opposed the Sethusamudram project in Rameshwaram that she says will destroy the 30-km bridge mentioned in the Ramayana.

Bharati, who had been insisting that ‘‘I am the real BJP’’ for quite some time after her expulsion, said the country needs a ‘‘political alternative’’ as the BJP, Congress and the Left have only complicated people’s issues instead of solving them. ‘‘The road is full of difficulties but it’s the right time to spread (her party),’’ she said.

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