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Sadhna Gupta Age, Death, Husband, Children, Family, Biography & More

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Husband: Mulayam Singh Yadav
Hometown: Bidhuna, Uttar Pradesh, India
Age: 62 Years

Sadhana Gupta

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Other nameSadhna Gupta Yadav
ProfessionHomemaker
Known forBeing the second wife of Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)in centimeters- 170 cm
in meters- 1.70 m
in feet & inches- 5’ 6”
Eye ColourBlack
Hair ColourBlack
Personal Life
Date of BirthYear, 1960
BirthplaceBidhuna, Uttar Pradesh, India
Date of Death9 July 2022
Place of DeathMedanta Hospital in Gurgaon
Age (at the time of death)62 Years
Death CauseLung Infection [1]India Today
NationalityIndian
HometownBidhuna, Uttar Pradesh, India
CasteOther Backward Class (OBC)
AddressPost-Saifai, District Etawah, 26001, Uttar Pradesh
SchoolGajendra Singh Public Inter College, Uttar Pradesh
Education QualificationIntermediate at Gajendra Singh Public Inter College, Uttar Pradesh
Relationships & More
Marital Status (at the time of death)Married
Affairs/BoyfriendsShe was in a relationship with Mulayam Singh Yadav before getting married to him in 2003.
Marriage Date• Chandra Prakash Gupta (a grocer from Farrukhabad) (m. 4 July 1986 -d. 1990)
• Mulayam Singh Yadav (politician) (m. 23 May 2003)
Family
Husband/Spouse• Chandra Prakash Gupta
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Sadhana Gupta with her husband
ChildrenSon- Prateek Yadav (politician)
Prateek Yadav, son of Sadhana Gupta
Daughter-in-law- Aparna Yadav (politician)
Sadhana Gupta with her son and daughter-in-law
Step-son- Akhilesh Yadav (politician)
Sadhana Gupta with her husband and step-son, Akhilesh Yadav
ParentsFather- Kamlapati Gupta
Mother- Hemlata Gupta
Sadhna Gupta with her mother
SiblingsBrother- 2
• Sachin Pati Gupta (businessman)
Sadhna Gupta's brother, Sachin Gupta
• Late Nitin Pati Gupta (businessman)
Sadhna Gupta's brother, Nitin Gupta
Sister- Kalpana Gupta
Sadhna Gupta with her sister

Sadhana Gupta

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sadhna Gupta

  • Sadhna Gupta was an Indian woman who was known for being the second wife of Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav. On 1 October 2022, she passed away due to a prolonged illness at Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon. She was suffering from a lung infection.
  • On 4 July 1986, SadhnaGupta got married to a grocer from Farrukhabad, Chandraprakash Gupta and got mutually divorced in 1990. She then got married to Mulayam Singh Yadav in 2003. Mulayam Singh Yadav’s son, Akhilesh Yadav mentioned in his biography, Badlav Ki Lehar, that Sadhna used to pay regular visits to Mulayam’s house to take care of Mulayam’s mother when she (Murti Devi) was ill in the 1980s. In the same biography, Akhilesh Yadav wrote that when a nurse who was appointed to take care of Murti Devi was administering a wrong injection to her, then Sadhna took action against that nurse and intervened in the action. This incident made Mulayam Singh fall in love with Sadhan Gupta. Akhilesh wrote,

    A nurse in the medical college was going to inject a wrong drug to Murti Devi, which came to Sadhna’s notice as she was present there at the moment and stopped the nurse from doing so.”

    When Mulayam and Sadhna met each other, then Akhilesh Yadav was pursuing his intermediate studies in the school.

  • Reportedly, Mulayam Singh Yadav started considering Sadhan Gupta lucky for him as she came into his life in the 1980s after which he became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

    A picture of Sadhana with her husband, Mulayam Singh Yadav

    A picture of Sadhna with her husband, Mulayam Singh Yadav

  • In 2000, in one of the affidavits by Mulayam Singh Yadav, his name was registered as the guardian of Prateek Yadav.
  • Sadhna Gupta was twenty years younger than Mulayam Singh. In 2003, Sadhna and Mulayam Singh Yadav got married. However, the official confirmation of their marriage came into the limelight in 2007. In 2007, Mulayam Singh Yadav revealed in an affidavit that Sadhna Gupta was his wife and Prateek Yadav was his son. Prateek Yadav is the son of Sadhna Gupta by her first husband, Chandraprakash Gupta.
  • According to some media sources, Akhilesh Yadav became very upset when his father decided to marry Sadhna. Akhilesh began living separately, soon after the marriage of Sadhna and Mulayam. The late veteran Indian politician Amar Singh was the only person who knew about the relationship of Mulayam Yadav with Sadhna.
  • According to some media reports, in one of Prateek Yadav’s school forms in 1994, Mulayam Singh Yadav was listed as his father. However, Sadhna Gupta’s name hit the headlines in 2003 after the death of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s first wife and Akhilesh Yadav’s mother, Malti Yadav.
  • Once, in a media conversation, Sadhna Gupta disclosed that once, she expressed her desire to join politics to her second husband, Mulayam Singh Yadav who strictly refused her to do so.

    Sadhana Gupta (right) while attending an event

    Sadhna Gupta (right) while attending an event

  • In 2011, Sadhna Gupta’s daughter-in-law, Aparna Yadav joined the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh.

    Sadhana Gupta (right) with daughter-in-law and husband

    Sadhna Gupta (right) with daughter-in-law and husband

  • In 2017, during the final phase of election polls in Uttar Pradesh, there was a war going on between Samajwadi and Sadhna Gupta Yadav, who wanted her son Prateek Yadav to join politics. A day before the final phase of the general elections, she stated in a media interview that she would not tolerate the humiliation of Mulayam Singh Yadav anymore. [2]Banglore Mirror Sadhna Gupta said,

    I would now assert myself and not tolerate the humiliation of Netaji (Mulayam).”

    However, in the same discussion, Sadhna Gupta narrated that Mulayam never differentiated between her and Akhilesh Yadav. She cited,

    He has been misled by some people, otherwise he would not have done what he did. I feel bad about what happened in the family. A chief secretary was transferred and people said I was behind it. This is false, though I wish I was so powerful.”

    Sadhana Gupta (extreme right) with her family members

    Sadhna Gupta (extreme right) with her family members

  • Promod Gupta, her brother-in-law, contested Uttar Pradesh’s 16th Legislative Assembly elections and was appointed as an MLA in Uttar Pradesh. He worked in the position for five years. In 2022, he joined the Bharatiya Janta Party government in Uttar Pradesh.

    Promod Gupta (left) while joining BJP government in 2022

    Promod Gupta (left) while joining the BJP government in 2022

  • The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath expressed condolences on Sadhna’s death and wrote a note on his Twitter handle. He wrote,

    The death of Mulayam Singh Ji’s wife is extremely saddening. May Lord Ram help the soul attain moksha and strength to the family.”

  • Once, Akhilesh Yadav had to bow down and obey the orders of his stepmother Sadhna Gupta and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, when Akhilesh had to cut the election ticket of Dinesh Verma, son of former Legislative Assembly Speaker Dhaniram Verma and to give the ticket to SP MLA Pramod Gupta, who is his uncle and Sadhna Gupta’s brother-in-law.

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