Aparna Yadav, all of 26, says she was not interested in politics and was happy being a social worker, but was compelled to contest elections by her father-in-law and Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and mother-in-law, Sadhna Gupta, Mulayam Singh's second wife. Aparna is married to Mulayam Singh's son Prateek, a businessman.