The Congress on Wednesday ridiculed Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti's statement that she was quitting politics.

"We don't know what Bharti was told be her senior party colleagues Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Kishenchand Advani. But she seems to be fed up with her Tiranga Yatra and is resorting to the politics of drama, which is far removed from people's problems," Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma said.

"The country is not interested in whether a politician is taking sanyas," he said.

He said Uma's "tantrums" showed that the BJP believed in the politics of theatrics.

AICC secretary Tom Vadakkan said it was not the first time that Bharti had talked about quitting politics.

"My point is, how can a person take sanyas when she has already been calling herself a sanyasin," Vadakkan said, adding that such a charade did not go down well with the people.

"How often have we heard her claim that she will take sanyas from politics, but it always the reverse. Otherwise, she would not have been the Madhya Pradesh chief minister, the post from which she had to quit because of her past deeds," Vadakkan's party colleague Wasim Ahmed.

Meanwhile, BJP spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi rejected any talk of Bharti quitting politics.

"She is a senior leader. She will finish her Tiranga Yatra in Amritsar's Jallianawala Bagh. After that she will meet our senior leaders and if there are any misunderstandings, they will be sorted out," Naqvi said.

Vajpayee will attend Bharti's function in Amritsar, he added.