Uma Bharti was born on 3 May 1959 and is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
27 Facts About Uma Bharti
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Uma Bharti became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party at a young age, unsuccessfully contesting her first parliamentary elections in 1984.
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Uma Bharti 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.
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Uma Bharti defeated her Indian National Congress opponent from the Malehra seat by a 25 per cent margin.
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Uma Bharti resigned from the post of Chief Minister in August 2004, when an arrest warrant was issued against her regarding the 1994 Hubli riot case.
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Uma Bharti was re-elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India.
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Uma Bharti is occasionally addressed by the Hindu honorific Sadhvi, a respectful Sanskrit title for a female renunciant.
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Uma Bharti was born on 3 May 1959 in Dunda, Tikamgarh District in the state of Madhya Pradesh to a family of Lodh community.
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Uma Bharti 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.
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Uma Bharti describes herself in her youth as a "religious missionary".
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Uma Bharti was elected to Lok Sabha from Bhopal in 1999, and from Jhansi in 2014.
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Uma Bharti did not contest Lok Sabha elections in 2019.
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Uma Bharti was indicted for inciting a mob to violence by the Liberhan Commission that probed the incident.
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Uma Bharti has denied that she incited the mob but says she does not regret it and that she is willing to take "moral responsibility" for the demolition.
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Uma Bharti acknowledges that the BJP reaped massive political benefits from the incident.
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Uma Bharti has called for the BJP to stop avoiding responsibility for the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, saying:.
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Uma Bharti 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.
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Uma Bharti 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.
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Uma Bharti was appointed the Chief Ministerial candidate of the BJP for the 2003 Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh.
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Uma Bharti was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh.
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Uma Bharti 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.
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Uma Bharti stated that her party followed the ideology of the RSS, and claimed that she had the support of Mohan Bhagwat, head of the RSS.
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Uma Bharti was re-inducted into the BJP on 7 June 2011.
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Uma Bharti was tasked with reviving the party in Uttar Pradesh, ahead of that state's assembly election in 2012.
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Uma Bharti served as the Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation from 26 May 2014 to 1 September 2017.
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Uma Bharti became the Minister of drinking water and sanitation on 3 September 2017.
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Uma 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.