Being around Uma Bharti can be exhausting: she’s such a quicksilver motormouth. Two weeks before she was readmitted into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) she was sprawled on a sofa at BJP President Nitin Gadkari’s residence. “Now don’t you go writing that I am meeting him because I want to beg him to take me back in the BJP,” she said, wagging her finger at reporters. “I’m here because I just love fat people…” she said. Then looking at Smriti Irani (television actress of Saas bhi kabhi bahu thi fame) with an arch smile, she added, “that’s why I’m so fond of Smriti.” Irani looked at her distantly, smiled lightly and said, “Arre didi, I thought you were going to say I’ve lost weight.

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