
Aparna Yadav, a candidate for UP elections 2017, had posed for a selfie with PM Narendra Modi last year.
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Aparna Yadav married to Mulayam Singh's younger son
She is 26, running against BJP's Rita Bahuguna Joshi in Lucknow
Made headlines late last year for a selfie with PM Modi
Aparna Yadav began her campaign today for Lucknow Cantonment, one of nine seats in the capital of Uttar Pradesh. Wearing a yellow-coloured sari with a grey shawl draped over her head, Ms Yadav said that insinuations of the Chief Minister resisting her candidacy is malicious gossip. For the last few months, Aparna Yadav was seen as a fixture of the group backing Shivpal Yadav, who is Akhilesh Yadav's uncle and was sacked as a minister. A rollicking contest for power between the Chief Minister and Shivpal Yadav, 61, led to a far more perilous feud - between Akhilesh Yadav and his father and party patriarch, Mulayam Singh.
"It is wrong to say I was in Shivpal's camp. The family should be united," professed Aparna Yadav, a day after she told NDTV that "Shivpal is the backbone of the party," a compliment that is unlikely to have contributed to a détente in the family drama.
In 2011, Aparna Yadav married Prateek Yadav, Mulayam Singh's younger son from his second marriage. At 28, Prateek Yadav has amassed a large real estate empire that includes a high-end gym where he is often seen pumping. More recently, he appropriated his own media space by flashing his blue, four-crore Lamborghini on the streets of Lucknow. He has a young daughter with Aparna, who said any snark about the Lamborghini is unwarranted. "It is not distasteful. He is a businessman and has nothing to do with politics. There are politicians who wear expensive clothes," he said..

Aparna Yadav, married Samajwadi Party patriarch, Mulayam Singh's son Prateek in 2011.

Prateek Yadav with his 4-crore Lamborghini Huracan in the streets of Lucknow
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