Lucknow: Dimple Yadav, wife of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, and their younger daughter Tina tested positive for COVID-19 virus on Wednesday, raising a question on the leader’s poll campaign for the UP elections.
Akhilesh Yadav is also likely to get himself tested. However, the development may now cast a shadow on the joint rally which Akhilesh had to address with Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Jayant Chaudhary in Aligarh on Thursday, The Indian Express reported.
It is not confirmed if the SP chief has got himself vaccinated or not. In January, when the vaccination drive had commenced, he called the anti-COVID-19 vaccine that of the BJP and that he would not get it administered.
Later, amending his stand following the sharp criticism, Akhilesh said that he would get vaccinated only after his father Mulayam Singh Yadav decided to get the jab, which he has.
In another comment, Akhilesh had said that he would take the jab only if Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photograph was removed from vaccination certificates. He had also claimed that he was at least at risk of getting the infection again as he had already had COVID-19. “If the government puts a national flag on vaccine certificate, I will take it,” he had said.
