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Uma Bharti's party to have reservation for women, Dalits and OBCs

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BHOPAL: Bharatiya Janashakti president Uma Bharti said here on Monday that she had formed the party to provide "alternative politics" since the main parties like the Congress, the BJP and the Left had not only failed to solve people's problems but complicated matters.

Addressing a Press conference, she said: "What kind of development we see around us, when farmers in a State like Andhra Pradesh are being forced to commit suicide and those in Punjab are even auctioning their entire villages." "Agriculture production is going down in the country," she added.

The people have to decide whether they want "development and suicide or development that can generate employment for all", she said. Targeting the Congress and the BJP, she said these parties had lost their way and moorings when it came to real development.

Ms. Bharti said "people have witnessed a lot of family rule, corruption in high places and many so-called leaders compromising national interests for their selfish ends. Now the BJP is also being identified with traits that were generally linked with the Congress party."

She further stated: "The country is at a juncture when on the one side there is extreme poverty and unemployment and on the other the foreign economic powers are trying to enter India in a big way; the naxalites are trying to build a corridor from Pashupati to Tirupati; infiltrators have formed their own political outfit in the North-East; and the Pope has expressed his serious reservations on the law against religious conversion (in India)."

Ms. Bharti reiterated her party's resolve to usher in a new political culture and system. She said there would be 50 per cent reservation for women in her party.

She went hammer and tongs against senior BJP leader L.K. Advani saying he was hand-in-glove with the Congress party and "that was why the issue of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin" was swept under the carpet.

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