New Delhi:
Akhilesh Yadav, reacting to his relative Aparna Yadav switching to the BJP today, said he hoped she “carries our ideology to the BJP”.
The Samajwadi Party chief also “thanked” the BJP.
“I want to thank the BJP that they are giving tickets to those who even we are unable to give tickets to,” Akhilesh Yadav quipped.
Aparna Yadav is the wife of Akhilesh Yadav’s half-brother Prateek Yadav, the younger son of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.
She had contested the 2017 Uttar Pradesh election as a Samajwadi Party candidate but had lost to Rita Bahuguna, who had crossed over from the Congress to the BJP.
