Mulayam Singh’s daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav likely to join BJP

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Lucknow, January 16, 2022: After bleeding top leaders to the Samajwadi Party over the past week, the BJP may have finally scored a win of its own. SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law, Aparna Yadav, is likely to join the saffron party, sources said.

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. As many as 44 OBC names, including 16 Jats, figure in the list followed by 43 from upper castes and 19 from Scheduled Castes.

The saffron party, which won 303 out of 403 assembly seats in the 2017 elections, will announce candidates for the other 296 seats at a later date. If Aparna Yadav joins the BJP and contests polls, her name will figure in the future list of nominees.