Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti on Monday said she had no intention of approaching the saffron party on her own for re-admission and announced she would choose her path after her proposed 90-day public awareness yatra.
"I have no intention of giving any application (to join BJP). If I give an application, this will amount to my humiliation. I embarked on my path in an uncompromising attitude," the sanyasin told reporters in Lucknow.
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Training her guns on top BJP leaders, she came down heavily on former party president L K Advani saying she did not deserve to be an ordinary worker of the party. Asserting that the BJP was suffering from an ideological dilemma, Bharti said she thought it fit to leave the party as it had shunned basic principles of 'Ram and Roti'.
"I did not want to waste my time by remaining in BJP," she said, slamming new party president Rajnath Singh for stating the party would remain in the National Democratic Alliance and at the same time carry forward BJP's agenda.
"Such double standards will not succeed," she said, alleging that Rajnath Singh was instrumental in aligning with criminal elements for forming the party's government in Uttar Pradesh.
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"He should first undo the damage he caused to the party before doing anything else," she said.
Rejecting the charge that she had indulged in indiscipline, Bharti said, "On the contrary, I was the most disciplined party worker and you (media) will be surprised to know that on many occasions, I had to keep silent."
"The BJP leadership wants to sacrifice the party for an individual," Bharti said, adding that she had raised the issue of giving adequate representation to all sections of society in BJP Parliamentary Board in her reply to the notice to the party.
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On whether she had support from people inside BJP, Bharti said those who believed in the party's ideals had been sidelined.
"Those at the helm of affairs in BJP are not clear in their minds, but workers are with me," she said, adding that a few parties had even offered her to use their offices in New Delhi but her first claim was on Ashoka Road (BJP's office).
"If the party leadership remains unclear in its mind as it was on the demolition of Babri mosque, the office at Ashoka Road too will be demolished one day by workers," she said.
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