Backing sulking Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti, Vishwa Hindu Parishad said the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister is poised to become a "big Hindu" leader of the future, capable of leading the campaign to regain the
community's "lost glory".
"Uma Bharti is poised to become a 'big Hindu' leader in future. Even today, she is a Hindu leader," VHP's international working president Ashok Singhal told reporters during his visit to Bhopal on Monday.
'Make way for younger leaders'
On Bharti's statement of assuming the role of "Arjun" in fighting for justice within the party, the VHP president said, "I have learnt about it through news reports. If she is planning to do something, that's good. We will support her."
Bharti had been in the forefront of the 'Hindu andolan' especially during the Ayyodhya movement, he said adding, she
was not a different entity from the VHP.
Accusing the United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre of cutting down grants to schools run by VHP, he alleged that attempts were being made to close down the schools through "baseless means".
The government had entered into a "false campaign" to spread a message that the 245 schools had received huge grants during the NDA rule, Singhal alleged adding, "if this onslought continues, we will revert to gurukul form of
teaching."
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