TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Former Union minister and BJP leader Uma Bharti’s recent remarks on the bureaucracy that their job is to “pick up chappals” kicked a storm but today she issued an apology as well as a clarification in a series of tweets. The video which went viral is reported to be from a media interaction held on September 18.
In the video, the BJP leader is heard saying, “Bureaucracy is nothing. Bureaucracy is there to pick up chappals (slippers). It picks up our slippers. We only allow that.”
She further said, “Why do you think bureaucracy controls politicians? No, it is talked about in private first, and then the bureaucracy makes a file and brings it. Ask us, I have been a minister at the Centre for 11 years, have been the chief minister. First, we have a discussion and then the file is processed.”
“It is all nonsense that they control things. They cannot do that. What is their aukat (standing)? We are giving them a salary, we are giving them posting, we are giving them promotions and demotion. They cannot do anything on their own. The real thing is that we do our politics under the pretext of bureaucracy,” said the former Union minister.
