‘I love you Papa’… Emotional moment during Prateek Yadav’s ashes immersion in Haridwar, everyone cried after seeing the innocent daughter’s last message.

By Samira Vishwas On May 17, 2026

Lucknow/Haridwar: The ashes of Prateek Yadav, younger son of Samajwadi Party patron late Mulayam Singh Yadav, were immersed in the river Ganga at VIP Ghat in Haridwar with full rituals and Vedic chanting on Saturday. During this time, such a heart-wrenching scene was seen at the ghat, which brought tears to the eyes of every person present there.

innocent daughter’s last message

At the time of immersion of ashes, Prateek Yadav’s little daughter was holding a small card in her hand. There was a cute heart drawn on this card and it was written – ‘I love you Papa’. When the innocent boy floated this card along with his father’s ashes in the waves of Mother Ganga, the hearts of everyone present there were filled with joy. In this emotional moment, mother Aparna Yadav immediately hugged her suffering daughter.

The rituals were completed in a sad atmosphere

During the religious rituals of bone immersion, Prateek Yadav’s wife Aparna Yadav could not control her tears and started crying bitterly. The daughters (Prathama and Padmaja) touched the Kalash to their forehead with tears in their throats. In this sad time, Aparna Yadav’s father Arvind Bisht, brother Aman and Shivpal Yadav’s MP son Aditya Yadav also reached Haridwar to console the family.

died suddenly

It is noteworthy that 38-year-old Prateek Yadav, younger brother of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, died suddenly on Wednesday morning. He was found unconscious around 4 am in the kitchen of his residence on Vikramaditya Marg. On receiving information from the domestic help, a team of doctors reached there, but there was no movement in his body. Doctors declared him dead when he was taken to the hospital.

Though Prateek Yadav, son of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Sadhna Gupta, stayed away from politics, his family is one of the biggest political families of the country. There is a wave of mourning in the political world due to his sudden demise.