It won’t be a smooth sailing of Mulayam’s daughter-in-law Aparna who has been nominated by the SP to contest the Lucknow Cantonment assembly seat for the 2017 assembly elections. Before 2012 the assembly constituency had been a stronghold of the BJP for a long time. In the 2014 Lok Sabha general elections, Lucknow Cantonment assembly segment had given a lead of 51152 votes to Rajnath Singh, the current Union Home Minister. SP has never been won the seat.