Akhilesh's wife Dimple tries her luck at politics again

Dimple Yadav of the Samajwadi Party will try her luck at the hustings again.

She is expected to do much better than her misadventure in 2009 because her husband, Akhilesh Yadav, is Uttar Pradesh's chief minister, and also because the Congress has declared that it will not field a candidate against Dimple Yadav for the Kannauj bye-elections.

Dimple Yadav filed her Lok Sabha nomination. The election is scheduled for June 24.

Dimple Yadav was the unanimous choice of the SP's parliamentary board; the party said an overwhelming number of workers had demanded that she contest from Kannauj.

In 2009, Akhilesh Yadav effortlessly won two Lok Sabha seats - Kannauj and Firozabad. He chose to represent the former in Parliament, and she was handpicked to contest the by-election for the latter.

Like any politician about to contest an election, she reminded the gathering of their special connection. "I want to thank all of you...for many of you, I am 'Bhabhi' (sister-in-law)", she said.

Akhilesh and Dimple were married in November 1999. They have three children, Aditi and twins, Arjun and Tina.