Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah had decided to show the door to Union minister Uma Bharti, but Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh\u2019s (RSS) intervention ensured it was not to be, informed sources said on Sunday.However, the RSS could not fully help Bharti — a parliamentarian from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh — as her political stature went down after Sunday\u2019s reshuffle and expansion of the Union Cabinet — as her water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation portfolio was handed over to Nitin Gadkari while she was left with only drinking water and sanitation ministry.
\nThe sources said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah, who participated in the RSS three-day coordination committee meeting in Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh from September 1, discussed then impending cabinet reshuffle and the \u201cbad performance\u201d of Bharti and other ministerial colleagues and the plans to remove them.<\/p>\n
However, the sources added the RSS leadership advised Shah not to go ahead with her removal since \u201cit will send out a wrong message\u201d.After former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh parted ways with the BJP, the party had faced a setback as his Lodha community had shifted its political alliance too. Since Bharti also enjoys influence in the backward community, the BJP leadership too did not want to open a new front by sacking her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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