Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined the BJP on Wednesday, giving a severe blow to the Samajwadi Party ahead of the UP elections.
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined the BJP on Wednesday, giving a severe blow to the Samajwadi Party ahead of the UP elections. This announcement followed high-profile BJP departures last week. Former Cabinet ministers Swami Prasad Maurya, Dara Singh Chauhan, and Dharam Singh Saini joined Akhilesh's party. Several MLAs followed suit, intensifying the BJP-SP feud to unprecedented proportions.
Here's what we know about Aparna Yadav:
: joins BJP; here's all you need to know about former CM Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law. pic.twitter.com/W6EdK8Y9LB
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This development comes minutes after Samajwadi Party sources announced that the party chief Akhilesh Yadav has decided to contest upcoming Assembly election. The SP president had previously stated that he would not run in the state's forthcoming Assembly elections and focus on his party's campaign. The party has yet to pick which constituency Yadav would run in.
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