Highlights
- Aparna is the wife of Mulayam Singh’s younger son, Pratik Yadav
- News comes at a time when senior BJP leaders Swami Prasad Maurya and Dara Singh Chauhan joined SP
- BJP on Saturday released its first list of 107 candidates
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.
On Saturday, the BJP released its first list of 107 candidates for the first two phases of polling on February 10 and 14.
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