FORMER MADHYA PRADESH CM UMA BHARTI BEGINS GROUNDWORK TO RE-ENTER STATE POLITICS AHEAD OF 2023 POLLS

In an attempt to give a further push to her long-standing demand for a liquor ban in specific places or control the distribution policy in Madhya Pradesh, veteran BJP leader and former Union Minister Uma Bharti has announced that she will stop living at home or inside a building from November 7.

Bharti, who has also been the only woman chief minister of Madhya Pradesh so far, said she would launch a two-month-long march as a symbolic protest against the liquor policy of her own party’s government. The march will commence on November 7 and conclude on January 12, 2023, during which she would move around Madhya Pradesh and stay out of home or any building.

“During the two-month-long movement against liquor policy, I will move around Madhya Pradesh and stay out — may be in a tent, in a temporary hut, under a tree or likewise — from November 7 till the time a suitable liquor policy that ensures safety and security of women and girls, safe periphery to places of worship, educational institutes and hospitals etc is not introduced by the state government,” Bharti said during a press conference.

Notably, it would be Bharti’s fresh attempt at an indirect attack on the Shivraj Singh Chouhan led BJP government as she has been cornering the government of her own party for the last few months. In the past, she even openly attacked Chouhan and the party’s state chief V. D. Sharma accusing them of not paying heed to her voice on the liquor policy.