After Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo lalu Prasad Yadav married his youngest daughter Rajlaxmi to Mainpuri MP Tej Pratap grand nephew of Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav, another girl of the RJD leader's family is going to marry grandson of the SP president on April 28 in New Delhi. The marriage of lalu’s youngest daughter with Mulayam’s grand nephew was solemnised in February last year.
Anirudh Yadav alias Sadhu Yadav, brother-in-law of the RJD president is set to get his second daughter Isha's married with Rahul, son of the niece of Mulayam.
According to family members, the Tilak ceremony ahead of the marriage would be held at the Etawah Club on Sunday for which Sadhu Yadav is reached Etawah on Saturday.
The groom Rahul Yadav is in hotel business and his mother Sheela, a district panchayat member for the third time, is the elder sister of Badaun MP Dharmendra Yadav. The family stays in Jaswantnagar area of Etawah district.
The bride is MBBS.
Though all the family members of Mulayam Singh Yadav including the SP president, his chief minister son Akhilesh Yadav and others are expected to participate in the Tilak ceremony on Sunday but there is no confirmation about the presence of lalu Prasad Yadav or his wife Rabri Devi, who is sister of Sadhu Yadav at the function.
The relationship between Sadhu and lalu's family was strain in the recent past and even Sadhu contested against Rabri in the 2014 lok Sabha polls from Saran constituency as an independent candidate. Rajiv Pratap Rudi of BJP had won from this seat.
Sadhu Yadav, the controversial brother-in-law of lalu Prasad, called the shot during RJD rule in Bihar for 15 years from 1990 to 2005. He was considered strength behind Prasad during the period. He, however, fell out with Prasad later on and was removed from the party during 2009 Parliamentary election. Sadhu Yadav had unsuccessfully fought that election as Congress candidate from Bettiah. later the Congress also removed him in 2014 after he had met the than Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi at Ahmadabad.