How Dimple 'bhabhi' finally got her groove back

The new Dimple -- the star campaigner -- has learnt how to keep the audience especially the youth involved and impress them.

Sangita Bakaya Lucknow, Mar 8: The reticent and soft-spoken 'bahu' of the first family of the ruling Samajwadi Party in UP, Dimple Yadav, has finally found her groove, emerging as a major crowd puller in election rallies all over the state. From the fumbling leader who repeatedly corrected herself while going through her written text in Parliament on Kaushal Vikas mission some months ago to proper utilisation of manpower, the 39-year-old Kannauj MP has come a long way.

The star campaigner

The new Dimple -- the star campaigner -- has learnt how to keep the audience especially the youth involved and impress them.

Aptly donning the role of the bahu and bhabhi, she has gone about endearingly reprimanding the young enthusiasts with warnings that she will complain about them to their bhaiya (Akhilesh Yadav) and at the same time taking care of the elders among the electorate seeking muhdekhaiye (gift) for her in terms of votes.

'I will complain to 'bhaiya'

When party workers went berserk in Allahabad, she said, "I will tell bhaiya (Akhilesh) that you did not let me speak. I will complain...bhaiya is coming here tomorrow."

Winning over elders and young alike

Addressing another election rally in Jaunpur, she won over the elders and young alike when she started her speech seeking muhdikhai -- a ritual where family members give a gift to a bride when they see her face for the first time.

"Main pehli baar poorvanchal aayee hoon...mujhe muh dikhai milegi...poora vishwas hai (I have come to Poorvanchal for the first time. I am confident I will get the gift of votes as muhdikhai)," she said striking an instant chord with the people.

Electioneering with ease

In the face of dissent in the family which had left
Chief Minister and party president Akhilesh Yadav almost alone to lead the campaign, he found sufficient support in his wife who took to electioneering on her own and with ease.