Mulayam Singh Yadav Passes Away: Condolences being showered from all across

On Monday, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the founder of the Samajwadi Party, passed away while receiving treatment at Gurugram’s Medanta hospital. He was 82. The SP patriarch was receiving life-saving medication and his health had been “very severe” for a few weeks. Akhilesh, the party’s leader, and Yadav’s son tweeted a confirmation of the news of the leader’s passing. Akhilesh Yadav tweeted from the party’s official account, “Mere adarniya pitaji our sabke Netaji nahi rahe.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi remembered his friendship with the venerable leader shortly after learning of the founder of the SP’s passing and tweeted: “Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav Ji was a great personality. Many appreciated him for being an unassuming, sensible, and sympathetic leader.

Mulayam Singh Yadav, born November 22, 1939, was a senior Indian politician and the supremo of the Samajwadi Party. He was a member of Lok Sabha, representing the Azamgarh constituency of Uttar Pradesh. The Samajwadi Party (SP) founder and three-time Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, rose in UP politics in a period of intense social and political ferment after the 1970s. Emerging as a socialist leader, Mulayam soon established himself as an OBC stalwart, capturing a swathe of political space vacated by the Congress. He took oath as UP’s 15th CM in 1989, which marked the year when the Congress was voted out, failing to return to power in the state ever since.