UP elections: Crisis in BJP as Uma Bharati threatens to quit campaigning if Babu Singh Kushwaha is not removed

NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader Uma Bharati has reportedly expressed her extreme displeasure over her party's induction of tainted former Uttar Pradesh ministers who were sacked by the Mayawati-led BSP government recently. According to sources, the firebrand leader has threatened that she will not campaign for the pary in the upcoming UP elections unless Babu Singh Kushwaha is removed from the party.

Uma Bharati enjoys the support of many top BJP leaders including Maneka Gandhi, a very important leader from poll-bound Uttar Pradesh on this issue. Interestingly, this comes after Bharati met Baba Ramdev in Haridwar on Thursday who had earlier announced that he will campaign against tainted politicians in the states going to assembly election this year.

The induction of tainted former BSP members and UP ministers, especially the induction of Babu Singh Kushwaha has resulted in BJP earning the rebuke from political rivals and ire from many supporters. With Bharati's latest threat, the crisis with the party will only depend because sacking Kushwaha from the party now will completely antagonize the backward community in UP, which the party cannot afford at this stage due to the upcoming elections.