Campaign trail: Digvijay's bahu cuts b'day cake; seeks votes for MLA husband

Congress leader Digvijay Singh's son Jaivardhan might feel it is a 'cakewalk' to win polls from his family bastion here, but this did not deter his wife from joining him in the hectic campaign trail and that, too, on her birthday on Saturday.

Sreejamya, five years younger to her 32-year-old MLA husband, accompanied Jaivardhan at the hustings after offering prayers at the family Hanuman temple at their residence at the Raghogarh fort and then proceeded on a joint campaign trail while cutting cakes with locals and celebrating with them her birthday.

"I thought it would be better for me to ask her to accompany me on the campaign today rather than get hauled up for not being with her even on her birthday," Jaivardhan quipped when asked about her first day at the hustings with him for the November 28 Madhya Pradesh polls.

Jokes apart, he added, she has a great connect with the electorate in Raghogarh and she has already toured the area many times before, without me.

"The people of our constituency are like family... A family that I had met many times in the area since we got married in 2015. I have campaigned for him alone for a day or two for these polls.

"While men and women come to meet me with their problems at the 'quila' (the Singh family's fort residence) also, this is the first time we are going together to the villages," Sreejamya told PTI here.

Carrying her two-and-a-half year old son Sahasrajai Singh, the daughter-in-law of Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh, strikes an instant cord with the village women.

Asked as to how she sees her husband's work, Sreejamya said that "he manages both home and political work well and I am sure the work he has done for the constituency will give us the favourable results."