Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti has said in a series of tweets that she will renounce all of her ties from politics and will only be known as “Didi Maa”. Bharti, who had a very crucial role in the Ram Temple movement that resulted in BJP’s rise in national politics, posted 27 tweets over the span of two days, signalling towards her retirement from politics. "Jain Muni Acharya Vidyasagar Maharaj has ordered me to renounce all personal relations and names. I should only be called Didi Maa and adopt all the citizens of India to make my Bharti meaningful. The entire world community should be my family," she wrote on Friday.
"I had also decided that on the 30th year of my Sanyas Diksha, I would start obeying his orders. He gave me this instruction on March 17, 2022 by publicly announcing in the presence of all the sages. I free my family members from all bondage and I myself will be free on the 17th. My world and family have become much wider. Now I am Didi Maa of the whole world community, I do not have any personal family," said the saffron-robed politician, who has been a Union Minister.
In some tweets, Bharti hinted towards at disappointment from her own party BJP. "My family, my brothers, nephews and nieces gave me a lot of support in politics and even staked their own lives. I suffered false cases, harassment and many difficulties in both BJP and Congress rule," she said in a tweet on Saturday.
In another post former Madhya Pradesh chief minister said, "The highest values given by my parents, the advice of my guru, the dignity of my caste and clan, the ideology of my party and my responsibility to my country, I will never free myself from this." Uma Bharti has been away from active politics for a while. She was last seen targeting liquor shops in Madhya Pradesh.
Last month, Uma Bharti said that she will create such conditions regarding the liquor ban within the next six months to a year that all the officials and the administration will be afraid.
She made the remark while talking to the media persons in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday. Bharti also said that those who consume alcohol themselves want to leave it. They were not consuming it by the choice, they are forced to drink due to addiction, she said.
She said the government is helping people quit drinking in rural areas. She said, "The government is running a drug de-addiction campaign. The MLAs have been instructed. The Chief Minister is talking about it in his speeches and he is administering oath to the people for the same," she said.