UMA MAy bE CM IF bJP wINS U.P.

Uma Bharti, who belongs to the Bundelkhand region, may be the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh if the BJP comes to power there. With Narendra Modi wooing the non Yadav OBC voters, the best bet for BJP is Bharti, who is a Lodh—a non Yadav OBC. Bharti, a former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, also represents the Hindutva forces as one of the prime accused in the Babri mosque demolition case. Her elevation will also cut Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath to size. He is a Rajput by caste and has been nursing the ambition of becoming UP CM. However, making Bharti the CM may alienate the upper castes. The others in the queue for the CM’s post are Rajnath Singh’s son Pankaj Singh and even Rita Bahuguna Joshi. Meanwhile, in one of her speeches in Jhansi, Uma Bharti has said that Marx and Lenin were great economic revolutionaries, but Narendra Modi has surpassed them as his demonetisation is the greatest revolution of all time.