Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday.
Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday. While joining the party, Aparna Yadav said she has always been “influenced by PM Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Aparna Yadav thanked the BJP for giving her an opportunity and said, “I was always influenced by the PM. The nation comes first for me. I’ve stepped out to serve the nation.”
Aparna Yadav is the wife of Mulayam Singh’s younger son, Pratik Yadav. She joined the BJP on Wednesday in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh.
Aparna Yadav contested the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election on an SP ticket from Lucknow Cantonment. She had then lost to BJP candidate Rita Bahuguna Joshi by a margin of 33,796 votes.
After Aparna Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s brother-in-law Pramod Gupta will also join the BJP in Lucknow. Meanwhile, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav will also contest the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls.
Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh will be held between February 10 and March 7. The election results will be announced on March 10.
On Saturday, the BJP released its first list of 107 candidates for the first two phases of polling on February 10 and 14. As many as 44 OBC names, including 16 Jats, figure in the list, followed by 43 from upper castes and 19 from Scheduled Castes.
