20 Facts About Uma Bharati

Uma Bharati became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party at a young age, unsuccessfully contesting her first parliamentary elections in 1984.

Uma Bharati was present at the demolition of the Babri Masjid, and was later acquitted by a special CBI court in relation to charges filed against her in the incident.

Uma Bharati defeated her Indian National Congress opponent from the Malehra seat by a 25 per cent margin.

Uma Bharati resigned from the post of Chief Minister in August 2004, when an arrest warrant was issued against her regarding the 1994 Hubli riot case.

Uma Bharati was re-elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India.

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Uma Bharati is occasionally addressed by the Hindu honorific Sadhvi, a respectful Sanskrit title for a female renunciant.

Uma Bharati Bharti was born on 3 May 1959 in Dunda, Tikamgarh District in the state of Madhya Pradesh to a family of Lodhi Kshatriya peasants.

Uma Bharati began to give religious discourses while still a child, which brought her into contact with Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia, who would later become her political mentor.

Uma Bharati describes herself in her youth as a "religious missionary".

Uma Bharati was elected to Lok Sabha from Bhopal in 1999, and from Jhansi in 2014.

Uma Bharati acknowledges that the BJP reaped massive political benefits from the incident.

Uma Bharati has denied the presence of any conspiracy by the Sangh, while stating that she does not regret the demolition, as it furthers the goal of building a Ram Mandir there.

Uma Bharati became a cabinet member of the Vajpayee administration, and held various state- and cabinet-level portfolios, being those for Human Resource Development, Tourism, Youth Affairs and Sports, and finally Coal and Mines.

Uma Bharati was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh.

Uma Bharati continued to publicly defy the BJP high command, insisting that she replace Shivraj Singh Chouhan as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, which led to several show-cause notices from the party, and eventually, to her expulsion.

Uma Bharati stated that her party followed the ideology of the RSS, and claimed that she had the support of Mohan Bhagwat, head of the RSS.

Uma Bharati was tasked with reviving the party in Uttar Pradesh, ahead of that state's assembly election in 2012.

Uma Bharati served as the Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation from 26 May 2014 to 1 September 2017.

Uma Bharati became the Minister of drinking water and sanitation on 3 September 2017.

Uma Bharati Bharti donated one month of her salary to support the welfare of families of Central Reserve Police Force personnel murdered in the 2019 Pulwama attack perpetrated by a Kashmiri militant against the Indian Army.