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Uma Bharti

Indian politician · India · On the map · Politicians · Born 1959 · age 67

Uma Bharti is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. She became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party at a young age, unsuccessfully contesting her first parliamentary elections in 1984.

Uma Bharti is read about 141 times a day, in 21 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.

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  1. Owners of bullock carts in villages, create a wound on the back of the ox and when they want their bullock-carts to move faster they strike at the wound.

    2024 · Quoted from Vikram Sampath - Waiting for Shiva, Unearthing the Truth of Kashi's Gyan Vapi-BluOne Ink (2024), Own words

  2. However, as time passed, atheists came here, mainly for business purposes. This resulted in nature’s fury at Kedarnath in 2013.

    2013 · On the cause of the 2013 North India floods, as quoted in, Own words

  3. If you think we have stopped taking steps towards clean Ganga, it is not so. Before any big race, a sprinter stops a bit, assesses the destination and then sprints towards it.

    On pollution in the Ganges, as quoted in, Own words

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In 1989, she successfully contested the Khajuraho seat, and retained it in elections conducted in 1991, 1996 and 1998. In 1999, she switched constituencies and won the Bhopal seat.

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Born 1959 · age 67