| Names |
UMA BHARTI |
| Date of
Birth |
May 03, 1959 |
| Identity |
Indian politician |
| General |
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Presently (Feb, 2017) she is a cabinet minister
for water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation in the
union government of India.
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Raised by Vijaya Raje Scindia of Gwalior, she
became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at a very
young age, unsuccessfully contesting her first Parliamentary
elections in 1984.
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In 1989, she successfully contested the Khajuraho seat,
and retained it in elections conducted in 1991, 1996 and 1998.
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In 1999, she switched constituencies and won the Bhopal
seat.
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In the Vajpayee Administration, she held various state-level
and cabinet-level portfolios.
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She is occasionally given the honorific "sadhvi" on
account of being a renouncer.
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She was one of the most prominent leaders of the Ram
Janmabhoomi movement of the 1980s and 1990s organised by
the BJP and the Vishva Hindu Parishad.
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In the 2003 Assembly polls, she led the BJP to a three-fourths
majority in the Madhya Pradesh assembly.
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She resigned from the post of Chief Minister in August 2004, when an
arrest warrant was issued against her regarding the
1994 Hubli riot case.
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