BHOPAL, Sept 4:
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union minister Uma Bharti on Monday expressed displeasure over not being invited for the party’s ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ launched in Madhya Pradesh, where the assembly polls are due this year-end.
In a series of posts on her social media account X, former MP chief minister Bharti said she will not participate in programmes under the yatra, even if she is invited now.
The BJP leader, however, also said that if MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan asks her to campaign for an election, she can do it.
BJP president JP Nadda on Sunday flagged off the party’s Jan Ashirwad Yatra from Chitrakoot.
The BJP is taking out the yatras from five different places in Madhya Pradesh, which will culminate on September 25 in state capital Bhopal with a ‘Karyakarta Mahakumbh’.
“It is true that I did not receive an invitation for the start of Jan Ashirwad Yatra, but it doesn’t make me less or more. Now even if I am invited, I will not go anywhere. Neither at the beginning nor at the closing ceremony on September 25,” Bharti said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Bharti said there is an “unbreakable” and strong bond of respect between her and MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
“Whenever and wherever Shivraj ji asks me to campaign for election, I can campaign by obeying and respecting him,” the former MP CM said.
Bharti further said she is among those people whose “blood and sweat” have created the BJP and she will never harm the party.
She also shared her experience of treatment in government hospitals compared to private medical facilities and said, “We all leaders, MLAs, MPs, ministers, chief ministers and all officials should get treatment done in government hospitals and send children to study in government schools. (PTI)
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