Uma Bharti ‘skips’ meal with Dalits

‘I’m no Rama who would purify people’

Union Minister Uma Bharti

Union Minister Uma Bharti skipped an event organised for having a meal with Dalits near here in Madhya Pradesh, saying she was not Lord Rama who would purify people by having food with them.

Later, she apologised, claiming that she was not aware that she was supposed to have food with them.

At the event held at Dadri village near here two days ago, the senior BJP leader had said she does not take part in such community meals as she doesn’t consider herself Lord Rama, who would purify people by having food with them.

“I don’t go to the houses of Dalits to have meals, though I support this trait (breaking bread with the people of Scheduled Caste category),” said the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister while addressing a function in the village.

She said that instead, she invites Dalits to her home to have food.

‘Come to my home’

“Come to Delhi...my nephew’s wife would prepare food for you, I will serve meal to you, my nephew will collect your plate after you finish eating and wash them,” she said.