Uma to form ‘real BJP, without Ashoka Rd’

Months after her expulsion from the BJP, Uma Bharati’s anger against the party shows no sign of mitigating. At the end of her Ram Roti Yatra, she vowed to form “the real BJP with the support of like-minded parties and the saffron organisation excluding around six senior party residing on Ashoka Road, New Delhi”.

“My aim is to dislodge the leaders, including LK Advani and Rajnath Singh, and make the BJP return to its real Hindutva agenda,” she said at a news conference today. She said the details would be announced at the end of her 90-day Jan Adesh Yatra, slated for February 6.

“Many political parties and leaders have requested to join them. But I have to win over Ashoka Road, and tell Advani and others who have no ideology that the BJP is behind me. The Jan Adesh Yatra will mobilise party workers further,” she said.

On the possibility of a patch-up with the leaders, Bharati said she didn’t want to waste time on a group that denied her role in the party’s development and insulted her several times. “They didn’t realise that I was not temperamental but emotional. My emotions have been insulted often by them,” she said.