After performing as a farm woman, BJP MP Hema Malini now drives a tractor in Mathura

After harvesting crop in a farm with sickle, BJP MP and candidate of Mathura constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Hema Malini was today seen driving a tractor during campaigning in her constituency. Few days ago, actor-turned-politician was seen lending a hand to women working in a wheat field, carrying bundles of freshly harvested crop.

Malini is the sitting MP of Mathura constituency and is seeking re-election from the seat.


Hema Malini joined farmers and tried her hand at cutting the wheat crop in this region in Uttar Pradesh. She even picked up a bundle of wheat crop and carried it some distance, much to the amusement of villagers, in Govardhan area of Mathura.

Opposition leaders had termed the action as acting "nautanki".

Talking to the media, Hema Malini had said that she wanted to be one with farmers and identify with their problems and aspirations.

"When I was going to the villages, I saw golden coloured wheat ready to be harvested... I tried my hand. Women in the fields welcomed me warmly. We visited 10 villages," she said.

Dubbed an "outsider" by the Opposition, Hema Malini had said she has a "divine connection" with Mathura, the city of Lord Krishna, and has no intention of becoming a minister.

"I am so involved with the city and I feel some divine connection with this city. I have been playing Radha and Meera throughout my life and I was in a temple only when my candidature was announced," she said.

"In the last five years I have come here more than 250 times. People should understand that I am not just an MP and I have to use my talent as an actor and a danseuse as well. There is no need for me to be here 24 hours. I come and get things done in 10 days," Hema Malini said.

Hema Malini had defeated RLD's sitting MP Jayant Chaudhary in 2014 by a huge margin of 3,30,743 votes in 2014.

This year, she is pitted against RLD's Kunwar Narendra Singh.

Voting will be held in Mathura in the second round of seven-phase Lok Sabha polls on April 18. Results will be announced on May 23.

(Inputs from ANI & PTI)