Varun Gandhi to marry Yamini Roy Chowdhury in December

Controversial poster boy of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) and Pilibhit MP, Varun Gandhi, will tie the nuptial knot soon with Yamini Roy, his long time Bengali friend.

During a visit to the floodaffected region of Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, his mother and Aonla MP Maneka Gandhi said Varun’s marriage had been fixed.

“ He will marry a girl from West Bengal named Yamini,” she told newspersons.

She said all relatives, including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul, would be invited for the ceremony. Varun had attended his cousin Priyanka’s marriage to Robert Vadra 13 years ago despite strained relations between their families.

Although Maneka didn’t mention the date of the wedding, sources in the party said it would take place on December 11.

Maneka and Yamini’s mother film critic Aruna Vasudev were spotted at a sari store in Varanasi three months ago. They were reportedly buying Benarasi silk saris and lehengas.

Party sources said Yamini was a graphic designer and had graduated from St Stephen’s, Delhi. She had also studied at Sorbonne University, Paris. The daughter of a former diplomat, she lives in Delhi’s Defence Colony. The couple has been friends for the past five years.

Varun made headlines during his Lok Sabha election campaign last year when he had made objectionable remarks against Muslims and Sikhs. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati had ordered his arrest.

Varun, against whom a case is pending in court, was made the BJP national secretary in March.