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Wednesday, Dec 08, 2004

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Uma Bharti sees conspiracy behind Sonia's silence

By Our Tamil Nadu Bureau

The former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, coming out of the Sankara Mutt at Kancheepuram after meeting Sri Vijayendra Saraswathi on Tuesday. - Photo: A. Muralidharan

VELLORE, DEC.7. The former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, today alleged that there was a "conspiracy" behind the silence of the United Progressive Alliance chairperson and Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, on the arrest of the Kanchi Sankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, in a murder case.

Talking to newspersons after a 20-minute meeting with him in the central prison here, she described the arrest of a person of the stature of a Sankaracharya, that too of the Kanchi Mutt, as "foretelling something bad." She said she had told the Sankaracharya that God might be testing him.

`Not above law'

Ms. Bharti said the Sankaracharya wanted to convey to the people that nobody was above law and that he too was not above law. "Whatever the misfortune I am suffering, I am OK. I want people to pray for the well-being of the country, and to pray so that I come out clean", he told her. She said the seer was in good health and that he was being taken care of in the jail.

She had come not as a politician, "but as a saint, as a daughter to meet the father".

Meets junior Acharya

Earlier, Ms. Bharti called on the junior Acharya, Sri Vijayendra Saraswathi.

Thanking the Tamil Nadu Government for permitting her to meet Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, Ms. Bharti urged it to ensure that facilities were provided to him for performing pujas.

Asked whether she would meet the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, Ms. Bharti replied in the negative.

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