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Uma Bharti won't contest Lok Sabha polls: Reports

| @indiablooms | Dec 04, 2018, at 07:27 pm

New Delhi, Dec 4 (IBNS): Union Minister Uma Bharti has said she will not be contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha Polls.

Union minister Uma Bharti will not contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the senior BJP leader told Hindustan Times in Bhopal on Tuesday, declaring that she would, instead, focus on the Ram temple and Ganga for the next one-and-half-years.

She is the second Union minister to make the decision after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

Sushma Swaraj, one of the senior most leaders of the ruling BJP, had declared that she will not contest the 2019 national election on health ground.

Sushma Swaraj, 66,  shared the decision with reporters in earlier Madhya Pradesh.

"I have made up my mind not to contest the next elections,"  Swaraj had said.
 

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