Uma Bharti: I made Nitish Kumar, Bihar CM

India News: "The BJP is certainly going to benefit in the coming Assembly polls with the re-entry of Bharti in the party fold as she has her own dedicated vote in the state that resulted in the victory of her candidates in five seats in the 2008 Assembly polls," BJP MLA and spokesman Vishwas Sarang said.

In 2008, the BJP minus Uma Bharti had won 143 seats and later it wrested five more seats from the Congress in the by-polls, taking its tally to a total of 148.

Though Uma Bharti had herself lost the polls from her home turf Tikamgarh, her party won five seats in 2008 and managed to corner over 12 lakh votes totalling nearly 5.5 per cent of the total votes polled in the 215 seats that her party candidates contested, senior BJP leader Shiv Shankar Pateria said.