Endured dust, heat, hot winds: BJP’s Uma Bharti on being stuck in traffic
India Today
While being stuck in traffic on the way to Yogi Adityanath’s swearing-in ceremony, BJP leader Uma Bharti said she had to endure “dust, heat and hot winds”.
After missing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s swearing-in ceremony due to traffic wrangles, BJP leader Uma Bharti said she got a taste of how the other side lives and welcomed the experience.
“It is just as well, political leaders like us should get to experience this. Had I arrived, would have been tolerated on the stage. I had to endure dust, heat and hot winds,” Uma Bharti told Aaj Tak/India Today.
The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister had arrived in Lucknow on Friday for Yogi Adityanath's swearing-in, but was unable to attend the event due to traffic jam and a minor oversight on the part of the local police and administration, she said in a tweet earlier.
Uma Bharti congratulated Yogi Adityanath on a second term as the chief minister of UP, and in the same breath, took a potshot at the BJP’s political rivals -- the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which lost in the recently concluded assembly elections.
“People of UP were tired of the SP and BSP. Now, people like their way of living, so they have voted again for the BJP,” she said.
She went on to state that the outcome of the UP elections had completely exposed the SP for what it was -- not true “socialists”.
“Previously, when the SP formed the government, they did not deserve it. Like Congress, the SP is completely exposed. The real socialists will have to come forward if the party is to be saved,” she said.
