Bharti Yadav is the daughter of the politicians D. P. Yadav

D. P. Yadav

Dharam Pal Yadav in Hindi धरम पाल यादव is an Indian politician, once described as the "unrivalled don of western Uttar Pradesh". He entered the state politics of Uttar Pradesh initially as a representative of the Samajwadi Party in 1989, held ministerial office and then joined with the Bharatiya...

 and Umlesh Yadav

Umlesh Yadav

Umlesh Yadav is an Indian politician. She is the first politician to be disqualified by the Election Commission of India for a period of three years for suppression of her election expenses incurred when she was elected as an MLA to the Bisauli constituency in the Uttar Pradesh state assembly...

. In 2002, she fell in love with Nitish Katara

Nitish Katara

Nitish Katara was a 24-year-old Indian business executive in Delhi, who was murdered in the early hours of February 17, 2002, by Vikas Yadav the son of influential criminal-politician D. P. Yadav...

, a 24-year-old business executive who was a student in her college. However, her brother and her cousin were against this relationship. Subsequently, Nitish was abducted and killed by her brother Vikas Yadav

Vikas Yadav

Vikas Yadav in Hindi विकास यादव is the son of the noted criminal-politician from Uttar Pradesh, D.P. Yadav, and his politician wife Umlesh Yadav, both of whom are currently member of the state legislative assembly in Uttar Pradesh...

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Bharti Yadav got married on November 1, 2009 to the 27 year old Gurgaon-based MNC executive Yatin Rao. Rao is son of a Haryana government official and his mother is a lecturer in a government college in Gurgaon. His younger sister Pooja Rao is studying. The family lives in Sector 31 in Gurgaon. Rao’s maternal uncle and socialist Dr J.N. Yadav of Mahendergarh played the key role in arranging the marriage.