NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted invitation to attend Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's grandnephew Tej Pratap's wedding.

Tej Pratap will be married to the RJD leader Lalu Yadav's youngest daughter Raj Lakshmi in Saifai. Saifai is Mulayam Singh's hometown and Modi's arrival at the place is seen by many as an attempt by the government to secure the all important number in the Rajya Sabha. The date of the wedding is not yet known.

Earlier, Mulayam Singh had also attended the BJP president Amit Shah's son's wedding reception in New Delhi's Ashoka Road on February 16.

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