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.