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Uma goes into hiding
Bharatiya Jana Shakti (BJS) leader Uma Bharati is facing a lot of opposition from her party cadres over her decision not to campaign in the Gujarat election.
Sources in Bhopal and Indore said while Bharati is camping in Onkareshwar on the banks of Narmada, and has made herself inaccessible to supporters, her closest aide, Prahlad Patel, has decided to observe 'maun vrat' from December 12 to January 2 to express his resentment against the decision.
Bharati has, often in the past, gone into hiding when she is very disturbed and the press in Madhya Pradesh has followed this process of 'agyaat-vaas' quite closely over the years.
Patel, a former BJP MP, has been the staunchest of Bharati's supporters and has stood by her through thick and thin. He is said to be very upset with the manner in which Bharati left in the lurch the candidates that she was to put up in the Gujarat election.
While the buzz in Madhya Pradesh among Bharati's supporters is that she has stuck a bargain for a return into the BJP, and lead the party into the assembly elections due in 2008, even her closest supporters are now questioning
her credibility.
Bharati had announced that she would put up 60 candidates in Gujarat. After her announcement, a large group from the Sangh parivar, which is unhappy with chief minister Narendra Modi, had decided to rally around her. But at the last moment, Bharati decided not to come to Gujarat to campaign against Modi, apparently because the BJP leadership has promised her an honourable return into the party fold.
The row over Gujarat is also threatening to affect the chances of the BJS in the two by-elections scheduled in MP on December 12- Sanver Vidhan Sabha and Khargone Lok Sabha. It is after the polling on December 12 that Patel, who is the BJP's campaign in-charge for the two seats, wants to observe silence for the next 20 days as penance for not being able to support parivar's members who needed help at this juncture.
sanjeevratan.singh@timesgroup.com
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