Don’t take support from Gopal Kanda, says Uma Bharti

October 25, 2019 02:12 pm | Updated 02:25 pm IST - NEW DELHI

Uma Bharti.

Uma Bharti.

Former Union minister Uma Bharti on Friday came out in the open against BJP’s moves to take support from Haryana Lokhit Party’s lone MLA Gopal Kanda in order to shore up its numbers in Haryana, where it fell short of majority after Thursday’s results.

Taking to microblogging site Twitter, Ms Bharti, addressing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, said that she was happy that the BJP has emerged as the single largest party in Haryana, after having seen days where it couldn’t win more than two seats.

In a series of eight tweets she minced no words to oppose Mr. Kanda. “I have also received information that we may be receiving support from an independent MLA called Gopal Kanda (sic). I want to say a few things with regard to that.

“If Gopal Kanda is the same man due to whom a girl committed suicide and later her mother too, then, we must, for the sake of morality and ethics, not take his support to form a government in Haryana. The case is still in court and he is out on bail, elections cannot be seen as a validation of his legal or moral position.

“When we have someone as powerful as Narendra Modi, we must abjure taking people like Kanda with us. We in the BJP believe in a moral life, and we should have people with us who believe the same,” she tweeted.

Mr. Kanda has been accused of abetting the suicide of stewardess Gitika Sharma and subsequently her mother. The BJP had, in past, protested against Mr Kanda.

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