New Delhi: The Bhartiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti had earned herself the title of sanyasin from a very young age, when she was asked to perform penance and give pravachans (religious discourses). She later
Rajmata started teaching her the methodologies of politics when Uma was in her early twenties. As a result, Uma entered mainstream politics at an early age with becoming a member of BJP and contested her first election in 1984.