Uma Bharti

Uma Bharati

Uma Bharti (born 3 May 1959) is an Indian politician belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. Bharti held various state-level and cabinet-level portfolios in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Tourism, Youth Affairs and Sports, and also in Coal and Mines during the Second Vajpayee ministry as well as Third Vajpayee ministry ministry of Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After Narendra Modi became the Indian Prime Minister in 2014, she was appointed the Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, and held this office until September 2017.

Quotes

• However, as time passed, atheists came here, mainly for business purposes. This resulted in nature’s fury at Kedarnath in 2013.
  • On the cause of the 2013 North India floods, as quoted in "Uma says ‘human excretion’ caused U'khand floods". Hindustan Times. 17 September 2014. 

• If you think we have stopped taking steps towards clean Ganga, it is not so. Before any big race, a sprinter stops a bit, assesses the destination and then sprints towards it. So, our destination is October 2018 when we will show it to the world that Ganga is one of the cleanest rivers in the world.
  • On pollution in the Ganges, as quoted in "Ganga to be one of the cleanest rivers by October 2018: Uma Bharti". The Economics Times. 16 November 2015. 

• Deities are not bound to any caste or religion. Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman are not party workers of the BJP; the deities existed even before the existence of the Jana Sangh or before the rule of Mughals and Britishers.
  • On the use of deities for politics, as quoted in "'Lord Ram, Hanuman not BJP workers': Miffed Uma Bharti hits out at saffron party". India Today. 30 December 2022. 

• Owners of bullock carts in villages, create a wound on the back of the ox and when they want their bullock-carts to move faster they strike at the wound. Similarly, these disputes are wounds and marks of slavery on our ‘Bharat Mata’. So long as ‘Gyan Vapi’ continues in its present condition at Banaras and a grave remains in a temple at Pavagarh, it will remind us of the atrocities perpetrated by Aurangzeb including his efforts to convert Hindus to Islam and this would be very painful.
  • Quoted from Vikram Sampath - Waiting for Shiva, Unearthing the Truth of Kashi's Gyan Vapi-BluOne Ink (2024)