Kanpur: Mulayam Singh Yadav, the founder of the Samajwadi Party and a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, passed away today at Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital. He was 82. On August 22, the former CM was hospitalized after he complained of respiratory problems.
Mulayam Singh’s body will be taken to Delhi from Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital after 1 pm. This body will be kept there for last tributes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other ministers will pay tribute to the former UP chief minister.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath has said that the last rites of the veteran politician will be held with full state honors.
The Veteran Samajwadi politician was born on November 22, 1939, to Murti Devi and Sughar Singh Yadav in the Uttar Pradesh hamlet of Saifai in the Etawah district.
Mulayam Singh Yadav won a seat in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and in 1992 Mulayam Singh Yadav founded the Samajwadi Party. He served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. In the Indian government, he also held the position of minister of defense from 1996 to 1998.
Mulayam Singh dismissed his son Akhilesh Yadav and his cousin Ram Gopal from the Samajwadi Party for six years on December 30, 2016. Within a day, he changed his mind.
In 2017, Mulayam was forced to resign as party president on January 1st by Akhilesh Yadav. The party’s convention was deemed unlawful by Mulayam. The dispute was brought before the Election Commission, which decided that Ram Gopal had every right to call the convention, contrary to Mulayam’s instructions. Akhilesh finally took over as party leader.
(Vinayak)
