The daughter-in-law of a BJP parliamentarian slashed her wrist on a Lucknow street on Sunday night hours after releasing a video threatening suicide and blaming her in-laws for refusing to accept her and her husband for abandoning her.

Police took Ankita Singh, daughter-in-law of Mohanlalganj MP Kaushal Kishore, to hospital where she is recovering.

Kishore’s son Ayush and Ankita had married a year ago without the MP’s consent and begun living in a rented house in Lucknow. But late last month Ayush returned to his parents’ home, accusing Ankita and her brother Adarsh of misbehaving with him.

On March 3, Ayush accused Adarsh of shooting him in the right arm, prompting the police to arrest Ankita’s brother. But on March 5, the police registered a case against Ayush accusing him of shooting himself and framing Adarsh.

“You have ditched me. I’m going for ever,” Ankita said in Sunday’s video, adding that Ayush, his parents Kishore and Jai Devi (BJP MLA from Malihabad) and his brother Vikas would be responsible for her taking her own life.

It led to a search by the police, who found Ankita squatting on a deserted roadside near the MP’s home late at night, sources said. As soon as she saw the police, Ankita allegedly slit her right wrist.

Kishore told reporters: “We don’t accept her (Ankita) as our daughter-in-law. The police are probing the case and we need to wait for the truth to come out.”

Ayush had released a video on March 7 denying he had shot himself and accusing Ankita of conspiring against him.

“I hurt my parents under the influence of this woman (Ankita). I spoiled my life by marrying a woman against my parents’ wishes. I didn’t shoot myself; that day (March 3) I was beaten up first,” he said in the video.

Ayush had been admitted to the King George’s Medical University Hospital with his bullet injury but ran away fearing arrest after the police began suspecting him.