By IANS,
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Thursday ducked a question on the return of Uma Bharti into the party, saying the leadership will spell out its stand on the issue after she approached it.
“We will finalise our stand when she tells me or some other leader,” Gadkari said at a media meet here.
However, he was categorical that so far the leadership has not initiated any dialogue with the firebrand Hindutva leader about her return.
Uma Bharti last week resigned as president of the Bharatiya Jan Shakti (BJS), a party she floated four years ago following her expulsion from the BJP.
She was a senior leader of the BJP and a central minister who had openly revolted against L.K. Advani in 2004, triggering her temporary expulsion and a show cause notice.
Her expulsion was revoked later, but in 2005 she was sacked again when she opposed the appointment of Shivraj Singh Chauhan as the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh.
In 2006, Uma Bharti floated the BJS, saying she would revive the Hindu movement in India. However, she received a severe drubbing in the assembly election from her home turf in Madhya Pradesh’s Tikamgarh constituency.