MSY’s son Prateek rides in Rs 5-cr car, grabs eyeballs

Lucknow, January 14

Even as his father-MP Mulayam Singh Yadav and Chief Minister-brother Akhilesh continue to fight over controlling Samajwadi Party, the party patriarch’s younger son was spotted driving in a Rs 5-crore Lamborghini on the roads of Lucknow on Friday. 

Prateek is also a gym freak and has his own gym, which was inaugurated by his father. Prateek lacks a flair for politics, but his passion for high-end luxury is hogging the limelight.

Prateek is Mulayam’s younger son from his second marriage to Sadhana Gupta. In his childhood, Prateek contracted pneumonia while studying in Dehradun. A steroid injection made his weight shoot up to 103 kg. He is married to Aparna Bisht and they have a three-year-old daughter.

A graduate from University of Leeds, he manages the family’s massive land holdings. He reportedly plans to develop them into residential, commercial and industrial complexes.

He too has his fair share of controversy. In November 2012, a group of SP workers entered the party office in Lucknow and demanded that Prateek be given the ticket to contest from Azamgarh for the 2014 General Election. 

His mother pushed for the ticket, as did his uncle Shivpal Yadav, but their efforts did not bear fruit.

Sadhana Gupta’s political ambitions for her son have been repeatedly dashed. But with Mulayam agreeing to allow his ‘choti bahu’ Aparna to contest the upcoming Assembly election, there is another sun rising in the Samajwadi Party. — ANI