New Delhi, Jan 19 : Ahead of UP assembly elections, Samajwadi Party (SP) Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday.

Aparna Yadav join the party in the presence of state, BJP President Swatantra Dev Singh, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and other leaders here at Party headquarters New Delhi.

Aparna Yadav is the wife of Mulayam Singh’s younger son, Pratik Yadav.

Aparna Yadav contested the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election on an SP ticket from Lucknow Cantonment.

She lost to BJP candidate Rita Bahuguna Joshi by a margin of 33,796 votes.

Last week, several rebel BJP leaders, including former UP ministers Dara Singh Chauhan, Dharam Singh Saini and Swami Prasad Maurya, joined the SP.