BJP president L K Advani has said that Uma Bharati refused the post of party general secretary.
Bharti, who has been admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Rishikesh after testing positive for COVID-19, said had she been fine she would have herself visited the family in Hathras district, and added she will definitely visit the family after getting discharged from the hospital.
The meeting with Advani comes a day after she met senior party leader and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
The minister was admitted in the new private ward under the supervision of Dr Rajesh Malhotra who heads the orthopaedic department there, said a senior doctor at AIIMS.
According to trust sources, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat , Maharashtra Chief Minister Udhav Thackeray and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar are also on the list of invitees.
Cases registered against Uma for communal speeches.
IMAGES from the WPL match between Mumbai Indians and UP Warriorz in New Delhi on Thursday
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Saturday indicated that firebrand Hindutva leader Uma Bharti would return to the party soon to strengthen the organization in Uttar Pradesh and contest elections from the state.
Reacting sharply to Congress leader Ajay Maken's comments on Human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani's educational qualifications, senior Cabinet colleague Uma Bharti on Wednesday targeted Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Uma said Ram Mandir and Hindutva will be the main poll plank of her party in the upcoming assembly elections.
Insisting that she was not involved in bringing down Babri Masjid, expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti -- a prime accused in the case -- on Thursday said she was ready to face any consequence following the submission of the Liberhan Commission report to the prime minister.
Since Wednesday morning, around 45-odd MLAs met Bharti.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti on Monday expressed strong support for the movements of Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev and said that prime minister must be brought under the Lokpal Bill.
Khurana, who joined Jan Shakti a couple of months ago after his expulsion from the saffron party last year, faced rejection of his candidates that he had fielded primarily to oppose the BJP in the recent municipal elections in Delhi.
Stung by the Bharatiya Janata Party cold-shouldering him, former Delhi chief minister Madanlal Khurana today joined Uma Bharti's Bharatiya Jan Shakti as its acting president
The Congress leader said Bharti had concealed information pertaining to the flag hoisting case against her in Karnataka.
The party's most outspoken female member will be its face in the UP elections, writes Aditi Phadnis.
I have been forced to retire at the age of 45. I wanted to go on a pilgrimage, but Advaniji asked me not to go. I have never asked for any post, but was hoping that I would be given some responsibility. But it did not happen."
"I take strong exception to Uma Bharti's wild, baseless, unrestrained and repeated corruption charges against me," Singh told reporters in Bhopal on Thursday.
The suspended BJP leader said demolition was not on the agenda at all.
The Bharatiya Janata Party said the re-induction of former party leaders Uma Bharti and Govindacharya into its fold was under consideration of the central leadership. "The matter is under consideration. But, a final decision in this regard will be taken by the BJP parliamentary board," party spokesman Ramnath Kovind told reporters in Lucknow.
In a surprise development, Uma Bharti on Thursday quit Bharatiya Janashakti, a party she had founded and was heading after being sacked from the BJP in 2005.
Venkaiah Naidu replied in the negative when asked whether she would get back the post of general secretary.
Uma Bharti has blasted party leaders for not supporting her in the row with Advani.
'Six years of development done by the Vajpayee government has been undone in three months by the Manmohan\n\nSingh government,' the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister alleged.
Attempting to woo IT firms into the state with an "investor friendly" image, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti is leading a delegation to Bangalore on Tuesday to showcase her state for potential investors.
On the heels of her discharge by a court in a 10-year old criminal case, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti will launch a 16-day 'Tirange Yatra' from Hubli in Karnataka to Jallianwallah Bagh in Punjab on September 10
Police pickets have been posted right from Belgaum as her train enters the state from Miraj early Wednesday.
From installing water-saving aerators on taps to using cans for washing hands and dishes, Bengaluru is adopting diverse strategies to tide over the water crisis. While several citizens have taken to social media to urge Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to make work from home mandatory for IT companies, it appears that hybrid mode will continue to be the norm for most - although with new water conservation measures in place. Co-working space provider Urban Vault has, for instance, installed smart water meters to detect leakage.
Madhya Pradesh government's official magazine Sandesh, while analysing the personalities, traits and qualities of various state chief ministers has termed saffron leader Uma Bharti's stint of being synonymous to what can be called as "frenzied and uncontrolled politics in the Bharatiya Janata Party".
Bharti got infuriated when Rai disturbed a meeting between Bharti and several persons by repeatedly calling them on their mobile phones. Rai, who is a supporter of the BJS breakaway faction led by Prahlad Patel, was asking people to come out of the meeting, and that annoyed Bharati, sources said
Bharti went to Naidu's residence and was closeted with him for about an hour, party sources said.
Now that Shivraj Singh Chauhan has been handed over the reigns of Madhya Pradesh, the sanyasin is the not the only one who is sulking.
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