LUCKNOW: Two days after her daughter Anupriya Patel was made a minister in the Union government, Apna Dal president Krishna Patel held a meeting in Lucknow to announce that her party had fallen out with the BJP. “We are not an NDA partner anymore. We are now open to a tie-up with any like-minded party,” said Krishna Patel, who had sacked her daughter from the party after a factional split. Anupriya’s sister Pallavi will also lead a major anti-BJP rally in Varanasi soon.

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