File photo of Aparna Yadav and Prateek Yadav.
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Prateek Yadav, the younger son of the Samajwadi Party (SP) founder late Mulayam Singh Yadav and step-brother of Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday (January 19, 2026) announced that he will divorce his wife Aparna Yadav.
Ms. Yadav is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader. He alleged that she “ruined his family ties”. Mr. Yadav, in an Instagram post wrote, “I am going to divorce this selfish woman as soon as possible. She ruined my family ties. All she wants to become is famous and influential. Right now, I am in a very bad mental health condition, and she doesn’t bother. Because it’s only herself, she bothers about. I have never seen such a bad soul, and I was unfortunate to get married to her,”.
Prateek Yadav, son of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s second wife Sadhna Gupta, and Aparna Yadav, daughter of a senior journalist and former Information Commissioner Arvind Singh Bisht, got married in 2011. Aparna contested the 2017 Vidhan Sabha polls on the SP ticket from Lucknow Sadar, but later joined the BJP ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections seeking party ticket from Lucknow’s Sarojini Nagar seat but was not obliged. She is presently the Vice Chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh State Women’s Commission.
Published – January 20, 2026 06:43 am IST
