Prateek Yadav Death: Rare Family Photos Featuring Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav And Aparna Yadav

Prateek Yadav, son of late Samajwadi Party founder and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayalam Singh Yadav and husband of BJP leader Aparna Yadav, died in Lucknow on Wednesday. He was 38.

Prateek Yadav is the younger son of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayalam Singh Yadav. The Samajwadi Party patriarch married his first wife Malti Devi, with whom he had Akhilesh. After Malti’s death in 2003, he publicly acknowledged a secret second marriage to Sadhana Gupta, a SP worker he had been close to for years. Prateek is the son of Mulayam Yadav Singh and Sadhana Gupta. He was born in 1988.

Prateek married Aparna Bisht in 2011 in a grand ceremony attended by Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Ambani.

In early 2026, Prateek took to Instagram to accuse her of ruining family relations and damaging his mental health.

Aparna joined BJP in 2022, creating an unusual cross party marriage.

Though Akhilesh Yadav and Prateek Yadav share a father, they never truly shared a world. Reportedly, the rift between Akhilesh Yadav and Shivpal Yadav, partly fuelled by Sadhana’s growing influence over Mulayam, cast a long shadow over the half brothers.

Unlike several members of the Yadav family, Prateek Yadav stayed away from active politics and never contested elections. He was known as a real estate developer and fitness enthusiast and had business interests linked to property and fitness ventures in and around Lucknow.