Bhopal: Senior BJP leader and former chief minister Uma Bharti on Monday expressed her annoyance over being overlooked for the party’s ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’, a mass outreach campaign launched by BJP national president J P Nadda in Chitrakoot in Madhya Pradesh ahead of the year-end assembly polls, saying that ‘They are nervous because my presence would have drawn the public attention towards me in the event’.
In her X (formerly Twitter) post on Monday, Ms Bharti declared that she was not invited to the launch of the yatra at Chitrakoot on Sunday and added that it hardly mattered to her.
“It may be that they (BJP leaders) would have felt nervous because of my presence as I would have drawn all attentions”, she said.
Ms Bharti however said that she would not attend the ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ in future even if she was invited to it and also would not participate in the closing ceremony of the yatra, scheduled to be held here on September 25.
She said that like Union minister Jyotiradity Scindia who had brought BJP to power in the state after the 15-month-old Kamal Nath government fell in March 2020, she too brought BJP to power in the state in 2003.
Mr Scindia was among several senior party leaders who had attended the launch of the mass outreach campaign by BJP in Chitrakoot on Sunday.
Ms Bharti however said that Mr Scindia was like her nephew and both have mutual respect for each other.
The former chief minister said that she has high regard for chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and she would campaign for the party anytime and anywhere Mr Chouhan wanted her to canvas for the party.
Ms Bharti said that she would never do any harm to the interest of the party.
