Occasionally addressed by the Hindu honorific Sadhvi, Uma Bharti currently is currently serving as the cabinet minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA government. At a young age, she became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She contested her first parliamentary election in 1984. However, she was unsuccessful. Bharti, in 1989, successfully contested from the Khajuraho seat. She retained the seat it in elections conducted in 1991, 1996 and 1998. In 1999, she fought from Bhopal seat and won. For the 2003 Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Bharti was appointed the Chief Ministerial candidate of the saffron party. She led the party to a sweeping victory in which it won 173 out of 230 seats in the state. In 2014, after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister, she was appointed the Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. She held the post until September 2017.
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New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev Wednesday urged the BJP to field senior party leader Uma Bharti from the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency against Congress president Sonia Gandhi."Though the Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded
Bhopal: BJP leader and saffron sannyasin Uma Bharti today denied that she had ever written a letter to party chief Rajnath Singh seeking a ticket from Bhopal. Uma Bharti has been selected to contest from
Kanpur: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal may have declared that their goal was now the Parliament, but the party does not pose a big challenge for BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, the saffron
Kanpur: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal may have declared that their goal was now the Parliament, but the party does not pose a big challenge for BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, the saffron
Bhopal: Terming claims of a “Modi versus Rahul” contest in the 2014 elections as “ridiculous”, BJP vice-president Uma Bharti today said “it is like saying that there is a contest between a mole and a
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Chhatarpur(MP): BJP leader Uma Bharti was today forced to cancel her plans to attend a Dussehra programme in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh on a district official's order following which she shot off a letter to Election
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