President accepts Uma’s resignation

NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 2: President K R Narayanan has accepted the resignation of Minister of State for Tourism Uma Bharati, as advised by Pr...

NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 2: President K R Narayanan has accepted the resignation of Minister of State for Tourism Uma Bharati, as advised by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said here today.

The President has also directed Cabinet Minister Ananth Kumar shall hold the tourism portfolio in addition to the charge of the department of culture.

Earlier in Chhattarpur, Bharati said by resigning from the ministry, she had become free to fight for the rights of the poor.

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Even the Prime Minister had agreed with this view, Bharati claimed. She said as a Minister she felt she was bound by fetters and now she would struggle for the rights of government employees and the common man.

Bharati said she became a Minister to serve the people and had quit the post to serve them even better.

“Whatever I do is for the people,” Bharati said adding she would now be able to serve the people of Bhopal and Madhya Pradesh in a better way.

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