Highlights
- Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s wife Sadhna Gupta passed away
- She was undergoing treatment at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram for a lung infection
- Her son is Prateek Yadav while Bharatiya Janata Party leader Aparna Yadav is her daughter-in-law
Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s wife Sadhna Gupta passed away on Saturday. She was undergoing treatment at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram for a lung infection.
Mulayam's second wife Sadhna Gupta, who was 20 years younger than him, was admitted to Medanta hospital in a critical state, sources said. She was taken to the ICU where she took her last breath. Her son is Prateek Yadav while Bharatiya Janata Party leader Aparna Yadav is her daughter-in-law.
The deputy CM of Uttar Pradesh, Keshav Prasad Maurya, condoled Gupta's demise.
Sadhna Gupta is the second wife of leader Mulayam Singh Yadav. After the death of Akhilesh Yadav's mother Malti Devi in 2003, Mulayam Singh made Sadhna Gupta, his wife. It is believed that Amar Singh played an important role in giving air to the relationship between Mulayam Singh Yadav and Sadhna Gupta.
In 2007, to evade CBI probe in the disproportionate assets case, Mulayam Singh Yadav had accepted that Sadhna Gupta was his second wife and they had had a son, Prateek. That was the same time, the country got to know that Mulayam has another wife and a son from him.
At the same time, it is also told that on the school form of Prateek Yadav, father's name was given as MS Yadav and in the address, the deatils of Netaji's office was given. According to media reports, Sadhna Gupta used to take care of Mulayam Singh's mother Murti Devi at the time of her illness. Sadhna was a worker in the Samajwadi Party.
