MP: Uma Plans To End ‘Sanyas’ In Electoral Politics In 2029, Keen To Contest In Next LS polls
The former chief minister turned 63 in May this year. “I may contest in the coming elections”, she said. She had successfully contested the 1999 LS elections from Bhopal. She became chief minister in Madhya Pradesh in 2003 after BJP returned to power in the state in the Assembly elections then
Bhopal: Former Union minister Uma Bharti plans to end her one and half decades of ‘sanyas’ from electoral politics by joining the fray in the 2029 Lok Sabha polls.
Ms. Bharti said she had kept herself out of the 2019 and 2024 LS polls for his preoccupation with the Ganga rejuvenation campaign and indicated that she is keen to end her ‘sanyas’ from electoral politics in 2029 by contesting in the upcoming General Election.
“Although I had worked with former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and former Deputy PM L K Advani, I am 40 years younger to them. People have the impression that I am their contemporary and must have crossed 75 years of age. But I am yet to cross even 65 years and should be in politics in another 15-20 years”, she said here.
The former chief minister turned 63 in May this year. “I may contest in the coming elections”, she said.
Ms. Bharti also said that she will end her political career in BJP only. The Hindutva leader was first elected to the LS from Khajuraho seat in Madhya Pradesh in 1989 and represented the LS constituency for three more times in 1991, 1996 and 1998.
She had successfully contested the 1999 LS elections from Bhopal. She became chief minister in Madhya Pradesh in 2003 after BJP returned to power in the state in the Assembly elections then.
She had to step down from her post a year later in 2004 owing to an arrest warrant issued in a pending case against him. She was shifted to Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 LS polls and won the seat. She was a cabinet minister in the first tenure of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.
Sources said she still held sway over the electorally influential Lodhi community, she belongs to. “It will not be easy to predict if she gets the opportunity to contest in the 2029 LS elections as a BJP candidate. But her decision not to contest in the 2014 LS polls without taking the BJP leadership into confidence has not gone down well in the party. She was not even consulted by the party leadership if she was willing to contest in the 2024 LS polls”, a senior BJP functionary said here on Saturday, unwilling to be quoted.
