Uma gets Sonia entangled in her tricolour net

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: 0"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="0" width="25.9%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/825667.cms" alt="/photo/825667.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">NEW DELHI: In the war of the poses, it’s Uma Bharti in the saffron corner now challenging Sonia Gandhi to step into the ring.<br /><br />Dragged into the ring is more like it, with the NDA lining up behind the BJP’s most potent street weapon to do what it does best – target Sonia.<br /><br />It was Uma Bharti, embarking on the next leg of her colourful political career, who gave the cue on Monday: "I stopped you (Gandhi) from becoming the Prime Minister.Now you are trying to stop me from hoisting the national flag. The ''Tiranga Yatra'' will be the final nail in the coffin for Congress."<br /><br />Uma had dramatically sent her resignation to the BJP president – not the Madhya Pradesh Governor – during government formation at the Centre earlier this year to protest against Sonia Gandhi as prospective prime minister. <br /><br />On Tuesday, the entire NDA took up the chant holding Sonia Gandhi "directly responsible" for the reopening of cases against Uma. The Opposition has made clear matters will not rest here. The Uma issue will be blown up into one of national dignity.<br /><br />The BJP has likened the case to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, when many Indians were shot dead by the British for unfurling the national flag. Uma plans to take her ''Tiranga Yatra'' to Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. <br /><br />At a strategy meeting on Tuesday, the NDA passed a resolution condemning Sonia. <br /><br />"The NDA holds Congress President Sonia Gandhi directly responsible for ordering the Government of Karnataka to reopen the baseless 10-year-old cases against Uma Bharati in the tricolour hoisting incident," Fernandes said after the meeting quoting from the resolution.<br /><br />Uma, meanwhile, has left Bhopal for Hubli by train and will surrender there on Wednesday, amid much pomp and show. <br /><br />Preparations are in place to arrest her in the 10-year-old Hubli rioting case. It has been decided that she will not seek bail as the idea is to make a hero of her.<br /><br />The sloganeering has begun, VHP leader Pravin Togadia has slammed attempts by the Congress-led government to stop Indian citizens from exercising their right to unfurl the tricolour, recalling that he was stopped from doing so in Patna by the Rabri Devi government.<br /><br />This comes naturally to Uma, who was rather uncomfortable in her administrative role. The BJP, in its attempt to hype the issue, could not have done better had it been required to handpick the leader to kickstart such a movement.<br /><br />Her journey began with appropriate drama. Reports from Bhopal said a BJP worker lay down on the tracks as Uma’s train to Karnataka was to leave and had to be bodily removed by the police. <br /><br />A sign of things to come?</div> </div>