Aparna Yadav Lucknow Cantt

Rita Bahuguna Joshi joined the BJP months before the Uttar Pradesh election after spending decades in the Congress. She is one of the most prominent among the "outsiders" - leaders imported from other parties - that the BJP has fielded in this year's UP elections causing much heartburn in the party cadre. But Ms Joshi is a strong candidate in Luckn...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's "Kaam Bolta Hai (work tells)" slogan was put to test today as 69 of the state's 403 constituencies voted in the third of its seven-phase assembly elections. Till 5 pm, provisional data showed 62 per cent voting - a 2 per cent rise over 2012. That year, the ruling party had won 54 of the 69 seats - the t...

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh, who has so far campaigned only for his brother Shivpal Yadav, joined forces today with daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav to seek votes for Aparna Yadav - the wife of his younger son Prateek Yadav of the 5-crore Lamborghini fame.

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.

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has okayed fielding sister-in-law Aparna Yadav as the Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow Cantt, deferring to his father Mulayam Singh Yadav's wishes. It sets up what will be on of the most keenly watched in the UP election, with the BJP naming veteran Rita Bahuguna Joshi, newly acquired from the Congress, to contes...

A contest in Lucknow could become one of the most keenly watched in the Uttar Pradesh election if Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav picks the candidate his father Mulayam Singh has endorsed for the seat. The BJP has named Rita Bahuguna Joshi, newly acquired from the Congress, to contest from Lucknow Cantt, the seat she won in the last election. The Sam...

Akhilesh Yadav's rebel list of 235 Samajwadi Party candidates for the Uttar Pradesh elections names no one for the Lucknow Cantt seat. That detail stands out because the seat has been earmarked by Mr Yadav's father and party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for Aparna, the wife of his second son Prateek.

Rita Bahuguna Joshi joined the BJP months before the Uttar Pradesh election after spending decades in the Congress. She is one of the most prominent among the "outsiders" - leaders imported from other parties - that the BJP has fielded in this year's UP elections causing much heartburn in the party cadre. But Ms Joshi is a strong candidate in Luckn...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's "Kaam Bolta Hai (work tells)" slogan was put to test today as 69 of the state's 403 constituencies voted in the third of its seven-phase assembly elections. Till 5 pm, provisional data showed 62 per cent voting - a 2 per cent rise over 2012. That year, the ruling party had won 54 of the 69 seats - the t...

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh, who has so far campaigned only for his brother Shivpal Yadav, joined forces today with daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav to seek votes for Aparna Yadav - the wife of his younger son Prateek Yadav of the 5-crore Lamborghini fame.

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.

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has okayed fielding sister-in-law Aparna Yadav as the Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow Cantt, deferring to his father Mulayam Singh Yadav's wishes. It sets up what will be on of the most keenly watched in the UP election, with the BJP naming veteran Rita Bahuguna Joshi, newly acquired from the Congress, to contes...

A contest in Lucknow could become one of the most keenly watched in the Uttar Pradesh election if Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav picks the candidate his father Mulayam Singh has endorsed for the seat. The BJP has named Rita Bahuguna Joshi, newly acquired from the Congress, to contest from Lucknow Cantt, the seat she won in the last election. The Sam...

Akhilesh Yadav's rebel list of 235 Samajwadi Party candidates for the Uttar Pradesh elections names no one for the Lucknow Cantt seat. That detail stands out because the seat has been earmarked by Mr Yadav's father and party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for Aparna, the wife of his second son Prateek.