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Uma Bharati's party launched

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Names of office-bearers announced

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan unit of former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharati's Bharatiya Janshakti Party was launched here on Sunday with several leaders of other parties crossing over to the new outfit with a call to check decline of values in politics and uphold Hindutva as an "ideology of nationalism''.

Bharatiya Janshakti Party's all India general secretary Raghunandan Sharma formally inaugurated the State unit in the presence of party workers from several districts and declared Umesh Dutt Mathur as the State president and Chandraraj Singhvi as the State in-charge, while announcing the names of office-bearers of the party's working committee.

Mr. Sharma -- former vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Madhya Pradesh unit -- told reporters that the party had constituted its divisional units and appointed a "partial team'' in the State with an open invitation to the members of all other political parties to join.

A large number of former BJP and Bahujan Samaj Party leaders were inducted at the second-rung positions in the new party. Mr. Singhvi, for instance, was earlier in the BJP and had joined the BSP after his expulsion. Several office-bearers of the new party were active in the affiliate organisations of the Sangh Parivar.

Mr. Sharma said the Hindu organisations, such as Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Hindu Munani and Shiv Sena, had extended an unconditional support to Bharatiya Janshakti Party in the southern States, where Ms. Uma Bharati had launched a yatra. Similar expression of support was expected in the North shortly, he added.

The former BJP leader said the new party would espouse the cause of Hindutva as a way of life to strengthen the nation "even if it delays electoral dividends."

"Our party will provide a credible alternative to the people left confused by conflicting claims of various groups and will restore the values in public life as envisaged by the Hindu religion," he said.

Firebrand former BJP leader Ms. Bharati had formally launched the new party in Ujjain on April 30. She was expelled from the BJP last year on the ground of indiscipline following her public outrage on the senior party leaders.

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