Lucknow, Jan 16: Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law, Aparna Yadav, is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today. Aparna is the wife of Mulayam Singh’s younger son, Pratik Yadav.
The news of her induction into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes at a time when a senior backward caste leader Swami Prasad Maurya shook up the caste-based political narrative in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. Soon after quitting the BJP government, he joined Samajwadi Party (SP) at a ‘virtual rally’ in Lucknow.
Aparna Yadav is the wife of Mulayam Singh’s younger son, Pratik Yadav. Sources said talks have been going on between the BJP and Aparna Yadav for some time now, and the two sides have come to an agreement with days to go to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
Aparna Yadav contested the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election from Lucknow Cantt seat. She lost to BJP candidate Rita Bahuguna Joshi by a margin of 33,796 votes.
It is believed that Aparna Yadav would join the saffron party on the understanding that she will be allowed to contest the upcoming polls, though sources said the BJP is keen to field her from a different constituency this time.
On Saturday, the BJP released its first list of 107 candidates for the first two phases of polling on February 10 and 14.
