Lucknow: Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s younger son and BJP leader Aparna Yadav’s husband, Prateek Yadav, passed away at Lucknow’s civil hospital on May 13 morning.
Prateek Yadav, the stepbrother of Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav, was brought to the hospital by his family members on Wednesday morning, where he was declared dead. The exact cause of his death is not known yet. Further details are expected to be revealed after the post-mortem examination.
Prateek was the son of Sadhna Gupta, the second wife of Mulayam Singh Yadav. Despite being from Uttar Pradesh’s most prominent political family, he largely stayed away from politics and focused on business and fitness ventures in Lucknow.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also expressed grief over the untimely demise of Prateek Yadav.
उत्तर प्रदेश के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री, 'पद्म विभूषण', स्वर्गीय मुलायम सिंह यादव जी के पुत्र एवं उत्तर प्रदेश राज्य महिला आयोग की उपाध्यक्ष श्रीमती अपर्णा यादव जी के पति श्री प्रतीक यादव जी का आकस्मिक निधन अत्यंत दुःखद है। विनम्र श्रद्धांजलि।
मेरी संवेदनाएं शोक संतप्त परिजनों के साथ…
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) May 13, 2026
“The sudden demise of Shri Prateek Yadav Ji, son of former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, ‘Padma Vibhushan’, the late Mulayam Singh Yadav Ji, and husband of Smt. Aparna Yadav Ji, Vice-Chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh State Women’s Commission, is extremely heartbreaking. Humble tribute. My condolences are with the bereaved family,” Yogi Adityanath said in a post on X.
“I pray to Lord Shri Ram that the departed soul attains eternal peace and the grieving family is granted the strength to bear this immense sorrow,” he added.
Prateek Yadav married Aparna Yadav in 2011. She has remained politically active over the years. She contested the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections from Lucknow Cantt on a Samajwadi Party ticket but lost to Rita Bahuguna Joshi. She later joined the BJP in 2022 and was appointed vice-chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh State Women’s Commission in 2024.
(With inputs from ANI)
