Watch: Dimple Yadav touches Mayawati’s feet at SP-BSP joint rally in Kannauj

The bonhomie between Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party was on display today when former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav touched feet of BSP chief Mayawati during a joint rally at her parliamentary constituency Kannauj.

MP Dimple Yadav, who is contesting again from the constituency Kannauj, sought the BSP chief’s blessings at the stage.

#WATCH Samajwadi Party leader Dimple Yadav takes blessings of BSP chief Mayawati at a 'mahagathbandhan' rally in Kannauj, earlier today pic.twitter.com/ZGUny3aPET

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News agency ANI tweeted a video in which the Kannauj MP can be seen touching Mayawati's feet.

Later during the speech, Mayawati took a break from her routine political speech and described Dimple as an "able, mature and an extremely sorted person".

Mayawati asked people to give her the respect of a daughter-in-law.

"After the alliance, I now whole-heartedly accept her as a daughter-in-law, a member of my own family. This is because Akhilesh Yadav gives me the respect due to an elder in the family. I, too, have developed a special relationship with his wife and I am confident it will continue in the future," Mayawati was quoted as saying by IANS.

Dimple Yadav will again face BJP's Subrat Pathak, whom she had defeated in 2014.