Later he changed gears and joined Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to contest 1996 general elections of Lok Sabha.
[4] Again in 1998 he fought the same Sambhal Lok Sabha seat on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket but lost to Mulayam Singh Yadav.
In 2007, he formed the party Rashtriya Parivartan Dal (RPD), and two members were elected to the state legislature — himself from Sahaswan, and his wife Umlesh Yadav from Bisauli.
[7] Bharti Yadav got married on 1 November 2009 to a Gurgaon-based businessman Yatin Rao, who is a son of a Haryana government officer.
[8][9][10] His son Kunal Singh Yadav contested the Sahaswan seat in 2022 on Rashtriya Parivartan Dal ticket but he lost the election to a Samajwadi Party candidate.
[1] DP Yadav became a bootlegger and entered the illegal country liquor trade as a protégé of ex-MLA of Dadri Mahendra Singh Bhati in the late 1970s.
In 1992 he was accused by the Central Bureau of Investigation of murdering his erstwhile mentor, Bhati, who was at the time MLA for Dadri.
[15] In March 2015, DP Yadav was sentenced to life in the Mahendra Singh Bhati murder case[17] and was imprisoned in Dehradun jail.
[18] On 10 November 2021, Uttarakhand High Court acquitted him due to lack of evidence in the murder of former Dadri MLA Mahendra Bhati.