Nehru-Gandhi scion Varun Gandhi today wed graphic designer Yamini Roy Chowdhury in a simple ceremony attended by a handful of people in a temple on the banks of the Ganges here.
30-year-old Varun, who was in a cream 'kurta-pyjama with saffron 'angvastram', got married to Yamini, a brahmin, at a ceremony in Kamakoti Temple at Hanuman Ghat in which Kanchi Shankaracharya Swami Jayendra Saraswati participated. Yamini, who is from Shantiniketan in West Bengal and has studied in Delhi's St Stephens college and in France, wore a pink saree which had been gifted by Indira Gandhi to her daughter-in-law Maneka, an MP from Aonla in Uttar Pradesh, 40 years ago. BJP's Hindutva posterboy, Varun, who is an MP from Pilibhit, is the youngest grandchild of late Indira Gandhi and son of late Sanjay Gandhi.