As Aparna Yadav joined BJP on Wednesday many were trying to figure out the connection between Aparna and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. Many of you don't know but Aparna Yadav is the half-sister-in-Law of Akhilesh Yadav. Yes, your read that correctly.
Aparna Yadav is the wife of Prateek Yadav, who is the half-brother of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. Mulayam Singh had married twice. His first wife, Malti Devi, suffered complications while giving birth to their first child, Akhilesh Yadav, in May 2003 she died. Akhilesh went on to become the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2017. After which Mulayam Yadav married Sadhana Gupta and also have a son with her name Prateek Yadav and Aparna Yadav is the wife of Prateek Yadav.
The love story of Mulayam and Sadhana started in the year 1982, in that period Congress was breaking up in the country and the dominance of the backward classes, especially the Yadavs, was increasing in UP and even the people got their leader who was Mulayam Singh Yadav. Research by Lifestyle Magazine even at the age of 40s Mulayam Yadav was the most handsome leader of that time. In that era the Samajwadi Party was yet to be established, there was National Lok Dal at that time. And here's the entry of Sadhana Gupta came a 23-year-old daughter of Kamalapati, a resident of Bidhuna in Auraiya district, was training in nursing. But she wanted to do something in politics. Many times she used to come to political events and that's where she met Mulayam Yadav. But they two came closer to each other because of Mulayam's mother, Sadhana used to take care of his mother as she was not physically fit and she also did her treatment, Sadhana was a nurse. According to one publisher, Murti Devi, Mulayam's mother was admitted to the Saifai Medical College where Sadhana used to work and during her treatment, Sadhana saved Mulayam's mother's life. And from there the love story of Sadhana and Mulayam started.
There was the only person who knew about this Amar Singh and he kept Mulayam's love story hidden for 6 years from CM's family. In 1988 three things happened together in Mulayam's life Mulayam stood on the doorstep of becoming the Chief Minister, Sadhna started living separately from her husband Chandra Prakash Gupta, and Akhilesh Yadav met his stepmom Sadhana for the first time. According to reports, Akhilesh Yadav was just 15-year-old when he met Sadhana, it is also said that there was not a good rapport between stepmom and Akhilesh, she even slapped him once after which his father sent him to Rajasthan for studies.
The truth is that Sadhana came into Mulayam's life in the right way in 1988 and in 1989, Mulayam became the CM of UP. Since then he started considering sadhana as lucky. The whole family knew about it. There was no one to say. Now that everything was coming to the fore, in 2007, Mulayam gave an affidavit in the Supreme Court in the disproportionate assets case against him. It read – I accept that Sadhna Gupta is my wife and Prateek is my son.
Akhilesh was very angry with his father. Mulayam won the 2012 assembly elections by fighting alone and gave the throne to Akhilesh Yadav. On January 19, when Aparna Yadav, the daughter-in-law of sadhana, held the BJP flag, people asked, 'Is Akhilesh unable to handle it.' For the time being, he left saying good luck to her.