Uma asks Vajpayee to join her tapasya

Firebrand BJP leader Uma Bharati on Wednesday invited former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to join her in ‘‘penance’’ since he had ‘‘no work’’.

‘‘Atalji ke paas abhi koi kaam nahin hai. Mere paas bhi koi kaam nahin hai (Atalji does not have any work at present. I also have no work),’’ she told reporters here, a day after Vajpayee endorsed RSS chief Sudarshan’s suggestion that he and L K Advani should resign their posts and he himself had ‘‘no work’’.

‘‘Let Atalji come here and we both baap-beti (father-daughter) will perform tapasya,’’ the former MP chief minister said, a day before a spiritual function here in which she is expected to announce her political plans after seeking blessings from her guru Swami Vishveshwara Teerth. — PTI