No rejoining BJP, but can work in a forum: Uma

New Delhi, Sep 26: Bharatiya Janashakti President Uma Bharti today ruled out rejoining the BJP but said her party was prepared to be part of a forum of nationalistic forces to defend the country from the twin threats -- market invasion by outside forces and terrorists.

Addressing 'Desh Bachao Sammelan,' featuring several leaders including former Delhi Chief Minister Madan Lal Khurana and Hindu Mahasabha leaders, Mrs Bharti-- who was expelled as General Secretary of the BJP -- said the newspapers were speculating about her return to the parent party.

''Why should I return... it is they who have to return to the right path. I am on the correct track believing in the philosphy of Hindutva and Rashtravad delineated by Jan Sangh founder Shayama Prasad Mukherjee", she said.

Ms Bharti, a former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, said India was in real trouble because the market forces were out to deprive the people of food security and employment and dispossess the farmers of their lands while the Naxal forces were weakening the nation from within and the terrorists -- sponsored by the other side of the border -- were attempting weaken the national resolve.

''India wanted friendly relationship with United States but they can't expect to treat people like they treated the native Red Indians when they took over North Americ''a, she noted, adding both countries could become equal partners, but the US could not treat India as ''one more base.'' She said since the nationalists and patriotic forces were divided, there was an attempt to attack the very essence of Hindutva and hence there was a need for these forces of 'Rambhaktas and Rashtrabhaktas' to stay united to face the assault on India and its way of life. She also declared that she had obtained a promise from veteran Jan Sangh leader and a close associate of Mr Mukherjee, Balraj Madhok, to be a patron for all the ''blueprints of the nationalistic forces.'' In a veiled attack on the BJP, Ms Bharti said some people had started treating Hindutva as a business without adopting themselves to its ways of life like Pakistan founder M A Jinnah, who had used Islam as a commodity though he never went to any mosque in his life.

She also criticised the BJP for serving meat at the recently concluded Dehradun National Executive during Shradh days.

Without taking any names, she said the BJP had disowned its former President for taking a bribe of Rs one lakh on camera while hailing its former General Secretary as a 'model leader,' even though he was 'embroiled' in a share scam of a leading industrial house.

Ms Bharti said the Dalits, backward classes and tribals accounted for 70 per cent of the Hindu population and it was they who were prepared to lay down their lives for the sake of religion.

Both BJP and Congress parties, she alleged were using these communities as 'paper plates' while parties like Samajwadi Party were getting their support by abusing the majority community.

UNI