Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], October 22 : Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union Minister Uma Bharti on Wednesday expressed her desire to contest from Jhansi constituency in the 2029 Lok Sabha polls.
While briefing the media, Uma Bharti stated that she had conveyed her wish to the party and said that next time, she would not refuse to contest elections.
"I have informed the party that I am ready to contest the 2029 elections. If the party wants to field me, I will definitely contest the 2029 elections. I will contest the Lok Sabha election from Jhansi constituency. If the party asks me, I won't say no this time," Uma Bharti told reporters.
Taking to 'X', Uma Bharti stated that while she was en route to catch a train from Tikamgarh to Lalitpur, several BJP workers met her and discussed her potential contest for the Jhansi Lok Sabha seat.
Bharti noted that she didn't deny contesting elections; however, she asserted that she would only contest elections if the party asked her to do so and the incumbent Jhansi MP, Anurag Sharma, didn't have a problem with it.
"On October 18, 25, when I came to catch the train from Tikamgarh to Lalitpur, I met BJP officials and workers from both Lalitpur and Jhansi districts at Lalitpur station, and while they were talking, I casually said that I would contest the 2029 election from Jhansi. I stand by it that I have said so, but two things are essential in this: the party asks me to contest the 2029 Lok Sabha election, and the current MP Anurag Sharma ji faces no trouble in this; this is my complete statement," Uma Bharti wrote on 'X'.
Uma Bharti previously contested the 2014 elections and represented Jhansi until 2019. The former Madhya Pradesh CM was also a part of the PM Narendra Modi's Cabinet as well as in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
Uma Bharti has won six Lok Sabha elections between 1989 to 2014: four times from Khajuraho, once from Bhopal and once from Jhansi.