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EARLY LIFE

• Uma Bharti was born on 3 May 1959 in Dunda, Tikamgarh District in the state of Madhya Pradesh to a family of peasants.
• She attended school up until the sixth standard. As a child, she displayed considerable interest in religious texts like the Bhagvad Gita which led to her being seen as a “spiritual” child.

POLITICAL CAREER

• With the support of Vijaya Raje Scindia, Bharti became involved with the BJP in Madhya Pradesh while still in her twenties.
• In 1984, she contested Lok Sabha elections for the first time, but lost.In 1989, she won in the Khajuraho Lok Sabha constituency, and retained the seat in the elections of 1991, 1996, and 1998.

POLITICAL CAREER

• Bharti rose to national prominence when she became one of the major faces of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, alongside L. K. Advani and others. Her fiery speeches are credited for helping the movement achieve its momentum.
• In December 1992, she was one of several prominent Sangh Parivar figures present at a rally in Ayodhya that developed into a riot, culminating in the demolition of the Babri Mosque
• Bharti was indicted for inciting a mob to violence by the Liberhan Commission that probed the incident.Bharti has denied that she incited the mob.

POLITICAL CAREER

• In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, Bharti switched constituencies and won the Bhopal seat. She became a cabinet member of the Vajpayee administration, and held various state- and cabinet-level portfolios.
• Bharti was appointed the Chief Ministerial candidate of the BJP for the 2003 Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh.
• She led the party to a sweeping victory in which it won 173 out of 230 seats in the legislature.She was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Madhya Pradesh

 POLITICAL CAREER

• In August 2004, after only a year in office, an arrest warrant was issued against Bharti in connection with the 1994 Hubli riots, forcing her resignation.
• In November 2004, she had a public falling out with Advani during a meeting at the BJP headquarters. This led to a suspension from the BJP, which was revoked a few months later at the insistence of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS).
• She continued to publicly defy the BJP high command, insisting that she replace Shivraj Singh Chouhan as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.In response, Bharti floated her own political party, the Bharatiya Janshakti Party.

POLITICAL CAREER

• Bharti was re-inducted into the BJP on 7 June 2011. She was tasked with reviving the party in Uttar Pradesh, ahead of that state’s assembly election in 2012.
• In those elections, she was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Charkhari constituency.
• On 16 May 2014, she was elected to the Lok Sabha from Jhansi constituency.She served as the Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation from 26 May 2014 to 1 September 2017.
• She became the Minister of drinking water and sanitation on 3 September 2017.

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