Wedding Vows: Politicians & Their Well-Known Spouses

Bhubaneswar: Fans of Ollywood actress Jhilik Bhattacharjee were in for a pleasant surprise when news of her wedding to Sukinda MLA Pritiranjan Gharai broke out on Thursday.

The wedding was a private affair with only family members and close friends on the guest list. The wedding ceremony was held at a restaurant in Chilika.

Prafulla Gharai, senior legislator and father of Pritiranjan, broke the good news to everyone.

Politicians might appear to be quite untrustworthy when it comes to keeping their pre-poll promises, but in their personal lives, many of them share a loyal bond with their famous spouses.

Here’s a list of some well-known politicians and their famous spouses:

1. Actor-turned politician Shatrughan Sinha tied the knot with Poonam Sinha in 1980, an actress and former Miss Young India (1968). After marriage, Poonam had left her acting career for her family. However, she starred in Ashutosh Gowariker’s ‘Jodha Akbar’ in 2008. At present, Shatrughan Sinha is a Congress leader from Patna.

2. Former Union minister and Congress leader Milind Deora married Pooja Shetty, a film producer by profession, in 1988. Pooja had helped her filmmaker father Manmohan Shetty in bringing Adlabs Imagica to Mumbai.

3. Politician Jayant Chaudhary, the vice president of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RDL), married Charu Singh in 2003. Charu is an entrepreneur and owns a multi-brand store Zooki. The couple has two children.

4. Former Chief Minister of Karnataka HD Kumaraswamy married Radhika, a famous Kannada actress and producer, in 2006. The couple has a daughter. Reportedly, Radhika married Kumaraswamy after the death of her first husband Ratan Kumar. Kumaraswamy had earlier married Anitha Kumaraswamy in 1986.

5. Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh married Rajya Sabha TV anchor Amrita Rai in August 2015. Earlier Digvijaya had married Asha Singh, who died in 2013. He has four daughters and a son from his first wife.