Aparna Yadav, the daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav, who recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, said on Sunday that she joined hands with the party to follow nationalism and she wished to contribute towards the formation of the ‘New India’.
Ahead of the UP elections, BJP's women's brigade has now entered a new phase as besides Aparna Yadav, MLA Aditi Singh joined the BJP from Congress along with Priyanka Maurya, the poster girl of Congress ‘Ladki hoon..’ campaign, and they all held a press conference together in Lucknow on Sunday.
Speaking at the press conference, Aparna Yadav thanked the party members for the warm welcome given to them.
Speaking at her maiden press conference as a BJP leader, Aparna Yadav said, “I thank PM Narendra Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath for the opportunity they have given me. I have chosen BJP because of nationalism.” She further addressed the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and said that the ideologies live and men follow them.
“Thought moves ahead and the man follows it. I believe that man is mortal but thought never dies. Once Shankaracharyaji was asked that when there is a lot of conflict in the mind when such a time comes when the mind is not stable, then what direction can one give to society and he said that thought is medicine,” Aparna Yadav said.
She praised the BJP for its work and said that she was looking forward to working with PM Modi. “BJP is the party which has saved the country. I want to move with PM Modi to build a New India. I have got an opportunity to fill colour with CM Yogi in this New India,” she said.
Meanwhile, BJP candidate from Rae Bareli Sadar seat of UP, Aditi Singh, said that the safety of women had been ensured in the Yogi government.
Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav had earlier given his blessings to his daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav who joined BJP. The meeting on January 21 was the first meeting between them after she arrived in Lucknow. Having unsuccessfully contested the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls from Lucknow Cantonment constituency as SP candidate, she supported various initiatives of the BJP government such as abrogation of Article 370 and the 'Swachh Bharat' campaign besides donating Rs 11 lakh for the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya.