New Delhi Jan 19 PTI Union minister Anurag Thakur took a jibe at the Samajwadi Party after Aparna Yadav joined the BJP Wednesday saying SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadavs daughter-in-law and its leader Swami Prasad Mauryas daughter believe the BJPs rule is safe for womenSanghmitra daughter of Swami Prasad Maurya who recently quit the BJP to join the SP is a BJP MP and has said that she will not leave itEven Mauryas daughter and Mulayam Singh Yadavs daughter-in-law believe that bahu beti are safe in the BJP Thakur a BJP co-incharge for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls told reportersThe BJP leader claimed that there has been a lot of opposition within the SP and its allies over the names in the first list of candidates for the pollsThe kind of people given tickets have drawn a lot of flak he saidThe BJP has alleged that the SP-RLD list carries a number of people facing serious criminal charges PTI KR TIR

New Delhi Jan 19 PTI Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadavs daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined the BJP on Wednesday asserting that she has always been impressed with Prime Minister Narendra ModiShe joined the party in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and its state chief Swatantra Dev SinghExpressing her admiration for Modi she also said the nations interest has always been a priority for her and praised several schemes of the BJP government for cleanliness empowerment of women and employmentAparna Yadav is married to Prateek Yadav son of Mulayam Singh Yadavs second wife while SP president Akhilesh Yadav is his son from the first marriageThere had been much speculation about her joining the BJP and the development highlights the rift in the SPs ruling family at a time when Akhilesh Yadav has been working to rally the partys base in the run up to the state assembly pollsMaurya was quick to attack Akhilesh Yadav saying he has not been successful in his family and was also unsuccessful as chief minister and MPWith Akhilesh Yadav yet to make it clear if he will fight the polls Maurya took a jibe at him saying the SP leader always stakes claim over development works carried out by the BJP government but is unable to have courage to fight from any place which he has developedYadav has often claimed that several signature development projects of the BJP government in the state were either sanctioned or even undertaken by his dispensation when it was in power during 2012-17 a claim mocked by the ruling partyPraising Aparna Yadav Maurya said she had been from time to time expressing views that showed her inclination towards the BJPThe Uttar Pradesh BJP president used the occasion to hit out at the Samajwadi Party for its alleged support to criminals in its ticket distribution in western Uttar Pradesh the region which goes to the polls on February 10 and 14 Farmers and women never felt safe when the SP was in power he saidAparna Yadav believes that good governance of PM Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should continue and her induction in the BJP will boost the party Singh saidThe BJP may field her in the polls sources said After her joining ceremony Aparna Yadav met BJP national president J P Nadda CM Adityanath and other office-bearers of the partyThe development comes days after a string of BJP lawmakers from the state including ministers and mostly from backward castes had defected to the Samajwadi Party alleging that the BJP worked against the interests of the poor and deprived communitiesAparna Yadav had contested the 2017 assembly polls on the Samajwadi Party ticket from Lucknow Cantt but had lost to BJPs Rita Bahuguna Joshi now a Lok Sabha member Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases beginning from February 10 PTI KR DV DV

New Delhi Jan 19 PTI Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadavs daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined the BJP on Wednesday asserting that she has always been impressed with Prime Minister Narendra ModiShe joined the party in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and and its state chief Swatantra Dev SinghExpressing her admiration for Modi she also said the nations interest has always been a priority for her and praised several schemes of the BJP government for cleanliness woman empowerment and employmentAparna Yadav is married to Prateek Yadav son of Mulayam Singh Yadavs second wife while SP president Akhilesh Yadav is his son from the first marriageThere had been much speculation about her joining the BJP and the development highlights the rift in the SPs ruling family at a time when Akhilesh Yadav has been working to rally the partys base in the run up to the state assembly pollsMaurya was quick to attack Akhilesh Yadav saying he has not been successful in his family and was also unsuccessful as chief minister and MPWith Akhilesh Yadav is yet to make it clear if he will fight the polls Maurya took a jibe at him saying the SP leader always stakes claim over development works carried out by the BJP government but is unable to have courage to fight from any place which he has developedYadav has often claimed that several signature development projects of the BJP government in the state were either sanctioned or even undertaken by his dispensation when it was in power during 2012-17 a claim mocked by the ruling partyPraising Aparna Yadav Maurya said she had been from time to time expressing views that showed her inclination towards the BJPThe Uttar Pradesh BJP president used the occasion to hit out at the Samajwadi Party for its alleged support to criminals in its ticket distribution in western Uttar Pradesh the region which goes to the polls on February 10 and 14 Farmers and women never felts safe when the SP was in power he saidAparna Yadav believes that good governance of PM Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should continue and her induction in the BJP will boost the party Singh saidThe BJP may field her in the polls sources saidAparna Yadav had contested the 2017 assembly polls on the Samajwadi Party ticket from Lucknow Cantt but had lost to BJPs Rita Bahuguna Joshi now a Lok Sabha member Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases beginning from February 10 PTI KR DV DV

New Delhi Jan 19 PTI Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadavs daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined the BJP on WednesdayShe joined the party in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and and its state chief Swatantra Dev SinghShe is married to Prateek Yadav son of Mulayam Singh Yadavs second wife while SP president Akhilesh Yadav is his son from the first marriageAparna Yadav said she has always been impressed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and added that the nations interest has always been her priorityThere had been much speculation about her joining the BJP and the development highlights the rift in the SPs ruling family at a time when Akhilesh Yadav has been working to rally the partys base in the run up to the state assembly pollsThe BJP may field her in the polls sources saidAparna Yadav had contested the 2017 assembly polls on the Samajwadi Party ticket from Lucknow Cantt but had lost to BJPs Rita Bahuguna Joshi now a Lok Sabha member Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases beginning from February 10 PTI KR DV DV

Lucknow Nov 21 PTI The Samajwadi Party has planned to celebrate party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadavs 82nd birthday in all districts of Uttar Pradesh on MondayThe main function will be held at the party office in Lucknows Vikramaditya Marg which will also be attended by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav Instructions have already been issued by the party chief to hold the birthday celebrations of Netaji in all the districts of the state senior party leader and spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary told PTIHe however did not confirm if Mulayam Singh will be attending the event at the party office in LucknowThe SP leader also evaded a reply on whether Shivpal Yadav the president of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia will attend the celebrations Shivpal is the brother of the octogenarian leaderOn November 3 Akhilesh Yadav had stated that he would be joining hands with his uncle on the birthday of the party founder He had said he would give all respect to Shivpal with whose party he would enter into an alliance for the upcoming assembly elections PTI NAV SRY