Thursday, April 7 2005 20:42 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Sulking BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) leader Uma Bharati, who skipped the party's special silver jubilee National Council session in New Delhi yesterday (Apr 6, 2005) and is observing "silence" in Madhya Pradesh, has ruled out quitting politics or BJP but asked both the party and Madhya Pradesh Government to work in the interest of people and party workers.

"I cannot leave politics and BJP. I have never requested that I be made Chief Minister or party general secretary. It is something else. The party should across the country and the Government in the State, work in the interest of the people and party activists," she said in a statement released in New Delhi through Madhya Pradesh State Warehousing Corporation chairman and BJP leader Sudhir Agrawal.

She also urged the media, people and party workers to be wary of misleading propaganda and not fall prey to it.

Claiming that he was authorised by Bharati to issue the statement, he said her fast had entered the fourth day today and she has directed party MLAs, MPs and activists from visiting her at Amarkantak, where she was initiated as a sanyasin 13 years back.

BJP's fiery sanyasin had reached Amarkantak on April 3 and had been participating in several religious programmes, while the party had been celebrating its silver jubilee in New Delhi since yesterday.

State Chief Minister Babulal Gaur, PWD Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, considered close to her, and State BJP chief Kailash Joshi had said it was her voluntary decision not to attend the party meeting.