Dimple, an MP from Kannauj, attacked BJP for raising law

and order issue in Uttar Pradesh and challenged Uma Bharti to go to Gujarat and highlight the matter there.

"It hurts when law and order issue is being raised here.

This is an issue of entire country be it Maharashtra or Gujarat. I want to ask Uma Bharti, who had raised the issue, to go to Gujarat and save women from BJP hooligans there," she said while campaigning for Aparna.

Her reference was to the alleged gangrape incident in Naliya town of Gujarat's Kutch district in which BJP men were suspected to be involved.

Dimple said SP did not believe in doing 'mann ki baat' but instead preferred doing 'kaam ki baat' and "show our work on the ground".

She exuded confidence that SP would form government again.

The coming together of two Samajwadi 'bahus' is seen as an important development in view of the recent internal feud in the Yadav clan which saw Mulayam losing his post as SP chief to his son Akhilesh.

Aparna is wife of Prateek, son of Mulayam's second wife Sadhana, who is said to be close to Shivpal Singh Yadav and had been accused of calling the shots from behind by Akhilesh loyalists. (MORE)

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