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Uma Bharti meets Advani

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, NOV. 2. The former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, today met the Bharatiya Janata Party president, L.K. Advani, for nearly two hours at his residence here.

While party leaders were tight-lipped about what transpired at the meeting, it was presumed that it related to the recent appointments to party posts, which had left Ms. Bharti out in the cold.

However, senior party leaders have been saying that Ms. Bharti wants to continue to have an effective and dominant role in the party's Madhya Pradesh affairs and wanted to be made prabhari (in-charge) of the State but the leadership does not want her to interfere with the functioning of the Government now under the charge of Babulal Gaur. There were also reports that she wanted to be accommodated in the party's Central Election Committee.

At a function in Ujjain on Sunday, Mr. Advani said that Ms. Bharti was "on leave." He was perhaps alluding to her statements made during the tiranga yatra.

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