Intensifying her efforts to embarrass the Bharatiya Janata Party, expelled party leader Uma Bharti is now writing an autobiography, which would not only detail her eventful 21 years in the saffron party but also elaborate on the pre-Jinnah and post-Jinnah BJP.
Bharti, who is currently on a Bhopal-Ayodhya 'Ram Roti' Yatra, would spend an hour every day during the journey penning the book, which would be released in the capital on her return from the temple town, sources close to the fiery sanyasin said.
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Named Adhoora Adhyaya (The incomplete chapter), the book would be autobiographical in nature and detail the important national and international events to which she was a witness, they said.
Bharti, who was expelled from the BJP on December five for her statements and conduct in the wake of the leadership change in Madhya Pradesh, would in the volume narrate her 21-year-long journey in the party from 1984-2005, they added.
The firebrand leader, who had charged almost all senior party leaders, including party President L K Advani and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee with ideological deviation and indiscipline, would be writing a separate chapter on BJP before and after the Jinnah episode, which is expected to be a scathing attack on the party chief's controversial remarks on the Pakistan founder and its fallout leading to his stepping down, the sources said.
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The book would also deal with the Ayodhya movement, in which Bharti had played a key role.
She is also one of the accused in the Babri Mosque demolition case along with Murli Manohar Joshi and senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders.
The autobiography is expected to have a chapter on the events leading to her becoming the Madhya Pradesh chief minister and after demitting office. She would also be writing about the flag hoisting incident at Hubli, the case which led to her resignation.
In a recent television interview, Bharti had claimed that a very senior person belonging to the Sangh Parivar organisation had asked her to resign after the Hubli court issued summons to her and had assured her that she would be made the party's national president.
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She, however, did not name the person after M Venkaiah Naidu's last stint.
Considered close to Swadeshi ideologue K N Govindacharya, the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister would also be writing about her support to the Swadeshi cause and opposition to the Dunkel proposals, which led to the creation of WTO.
Seeking to project herself as a messiah of the downtrodden, Bharti would be including chapters on feudal exploitation of the poor in Bundelkhand and the campaign of blacks against white hegemony in African countries, the sources said, adding that besides causing embarrassment to the party leadership, the book is also likely to give a vivid insider's account of the goings-on in the Saffron Brigade.
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