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Uma Bharti saved from Cabinet axing by RSS: Sources

  •   Mon, Sep 04 2017 12:10:21 AM

Bhopal, Sep 4 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah had decided to show the door to Union Minister Uma Bharti, but RSS intervention ensured it was not to be, informed sources said on Sunday.

However, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) could not fully help Bharti -- a parliamentarian from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh -- as her political stature went down after Sunday's reshuffle and expansion of the Union Cabinet -- her Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation portfolio was handed over to Nitin Gadkari while she was left with only Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministry.

The sources said that the Bharatiya Janata Party President, who participated in the RSS three-day coordination committee meeting in Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh from September 1, discussed the then impending Cabinet reshuffle and the "bad performance" of Bharti and other ministerial colleagues and the plans to remove them.

However, the sources added, the RSS leadership advised Shah not to go ahead with her removal since "it will send out a wrong message".

After former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh parted ways with the BJP, the party had faced a setback as his Lodha community had shifted its political alliance too. Since Bharti also enjoys influence in the backward community, the BJP leadership too did not want to open a new front by sacking her.

Cut to size in the reshuffle, Bharti vented her anger by remaining absent from the swearing-in event held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
  

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  • Ahmed K. C., Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 04 2017

    What's the difference between BJP and RSS ? Aren't they same ?
    RSS is ruling our country with a BJP name tag.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Sep 04 2017

    Billions are spent on 'Save Ganga' project handled by 5th Standard pass Uma Bharti ...

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Mon, Sep 04 2017

    Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation and national highway building by BJP is something similar in numeric.
    “We are building 20 kms/day of new roads.” This is an often heard statement made by everyone from Nitin Gadkari to every Tom, Dick and Bhagwat of the BJP.
    So if this is true, then in the last three years, the NHAI and the NHIDCL (National Highways Infrastructure Development Corporation) should have built a total of 21,900 kms of new roads.
    As per the latest information available on the government website, the current length of national highways under the NHAI stands at 10,0087 kms.
    Let’s now play some counting games!

    20 kms/day in three years. Any idea how much would this add up to?

    20 X 3 X 365 = 21,900 kms (What BJP claims they have built since forming the government at the Centre in May 2014.)

    For those pretending to be intelligent BJP supporters, who would say, “but how can you count Sunday, when it’s holiday?’ Even after excluding Sundays, the figure still comes to 18,780 kms. But since this BJP government is ‘known’ to work 24 X 7 every week under a hard-working PM, I am going with the previous figure.

    10,0087 (current length of national highways under the NHAI) – 91,287 (length of national highways as on 31 March 2014) = 8,800 kms. This is what the Modi government’s own data claims what they have built in little over 3 years in office.

    So, in effect we have 21,900 – 8,800 = 13,100 kms of national highways missing to justify the BJP spokies’ claims on TV channels.

    So where have these 13,100 kms of national highways been built? In Nitin Gadkari’s backyard or in Nagpur inside the RSS headquarter?

    Please don’t tell me that Gadkari is building toy lego model highways in his playroom as he frolics with his Nagpur buddies and has fun tagging them as national highways.

    Now, I have a humble request to all the readers. We have 13,100 kms of national highways gone missing. We have to find them?
    Jai Hind

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