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Singing and switching languages for husband's sake
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) She is not a politician. Yet Uma Iyer's campaign schedule is as busy as it gets. For, she is the wife of the Congress candidate from Idukki in Kerala and has been on a singing spree to canvass for him.
Her husband P.T. Thomas is a two-time legislator but lost the 2006 assembly polls.
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So this time, he is determined to win and is getting all the help he can from his wife.
'By now I have done 12 stage programmes for my husband and I travel ahead of him,' says Iyer. 'When I finish singing a few songs, he arrives. I find it easy to communicate with our voters through this medium.'
The Idukki constituency borders Tamil Nadu and it has a large number of tea estates with Tamil speaking people.
'I make sure that when I reach areas where there is a concentration of Tamil speaking voters, I switch to Tamil songs,' added Uma.
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Singing and switching languages for husband's sake .