Dimple is my ‘bahu’, Shivpal tells Mainpuri voters
Hindustan TimesAgra Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party president Shivpal Yadav, who seems to be enjoying his re-union with nephew and SP leader Akhilesh Yadav, on Saturday reiterated his commitment to ensure a historic win for Yadav family daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav. Addressing gatherings in Barnahal within Karhal assembly constituency seat, from where Akhilesh Yadav is MLA, he distanced himself from BJP candidate Raghjuraj Singh Shakya, a two-time former Samajwadi Party MP from Etawah, who has been claiming Shivpal Yadav as his political ‘guru’. Shivpal Yadav seems to be enjoying the revived status of ‘chacha’ of Akhilesh Yadav and father-in- law of SP candidate Dimple Yadav. Shivpal Yadav, presently the president of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party had differences with Samajwadi Party president and his nephew Akhilesh Yadav before the 2017 state assembly elections and the gap increased but recently after the death of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav publicly touched Shivpal’s feet at a programme in Saifai, the paternal village of Yadav family and uncle and nephew reunited for campaigning in Mainpuri.