The return of firebrand leader Uma Bharti in BJP with the specific mandate to work for the party in Uttar Pradesh (UP) has attracted criticism from Chhattisgarh Congress. Pointing out towards BJP’s poor performance in UP during the 2009 Lok Sabha polls when it witnessed a rapid erosion in its votebank finished fourth, the PCC said that Bharti would not be able to revive her party’s fortunes in UP and it would once again fare badly in the assembly polls.
“With controversial sanyasin’s return in the BJP and her first assignment to help revive the party in UP ahead of the state’s elections next year indicates that the party wants to play communal card to increase its votebank. But the BJP’s dream would eventually turn into a nightmare after the UP elections,” said PCC general secretary incharge Subhash Sharma, general secretary and spokesperson Ramesh Varlyani and others Congress leaders on Wednesday.
The party wants to capitalise on the fact that Bharti is an OBC leader but this factor too would not impress the voters,” they added.
Rejecting her as a failed leader, the Congmen said that the BJP in its desperation to find a leader for the UP polls had discovered Bharti who had been a political failure in her home state Madhya Pradesh (MP).
“Who can forget Bharti’s outburst against BJP patriarch Lal Krishna Advani in 2004, the famous drama of indiscipline in the party which was watched by thousands of people in television? Bharti was then ousted from the party on grounds of indiscipline after sometime. Now, suddenly, the BJP reinducted her. What happened its boastings about ‘discipline first’ in the party?” asked the Congress leaders.
Bharti was expelled for indiscipline and for defying the BJP’s central leadership in “December 2005. She then launched her own party - Bharatiya Janshakti Party, which had virtually no impact on voters,” they said.
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