The six-time Member of Parliament and an ex-Chief Minister (Madhya Pradesh) is the controversial of the lot. She rose to national prominence when she became one of the major faces of the Ramjanmabhoomi movement alongside L. K. Advani and others. Uma Bharti was born in 1959 in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh and has studied till class sixth only. She began to give religious discourses while still a child, which brought her into contact with Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia, who would later become her political mentor.
Uma Bharti contested her first election at the age of 25 years (in 1984) but lost it in the Congress wave that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi. However, in 1989, she was elected for the first time as Member of Parliament of India from Khajuraho Lok Sabha seat and retained it for the next three elections. It was only in 1999 that she switched the seats and contested from Bhopal constituency. She was a part of Cabinet of the Vajpayee Administration, and held various state-level and Cabinet level portfolios of Human Resource Development, Tourism, Youth Affairs & Sports, and finally Coal & Mines. In the 2003 Assembly polls, she led the BJP to a three-fourths majority in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly and was appointed as the Chief Minister of the state, only to resign in 2004. She left BJP and formed Bharatiya Janshakti Party on the ideology of the RSS. She was re-inducted in Bhartiya Janta Party in 2011 and subsequently appointed as party’s Vice-President. She has won from Jhansi Lok Sabha seat in the 2014 general elections.
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