Is Uma Bharti planning a return to MP politics?
Is Uma Bharti planning a return to MP politics? | India Today Insight
The former Union minister’s self-imposed exile ends in 2022, just in time to start preparing for the 2023 state assembly election
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UPDATED: January 28, 2021 00:37 IST
Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti speaks to media after the party's victory in Madhya Pradesh State Assembly by-elections, Bhopal, Nov. 2020 (ANI)
Former Union minister and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti, who has been on a self-imposed three-year break from electoral politics since the 2019 Lok Sabha election, is in the news again. The
sanyasin, in Bhopal for a few days, has been holding forth on various subjects, speaking her mind to the media. Political watchers feel Bharti is preparing for her political comeback and it is going to be in her own state and not in Uttar Pradesh, where she was ‘banished’ to after she fell out with the BJP leadership in Madhya Pradesh.