New Delhi: Samajwadi Party supremo and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav passed away on Monday, October 10, at the age of 82. The SP patriarch was admitted at the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram, Haryana, due to ill health where he breathed his last. The SP patron was under treatment at the hospital since August 22 and was shifted to the ICU on October 2.
“My respected father and everyone’s ‘Neta ji’ is no more” Akhilesh Yadav, tweeted.
The 82-year-old Samajwadi Party patriarch was facing difficulty in breathing and was under the supervision of an internal medicine expert at the Medanta Hospital, as per sources. Singh was suffering from a urinary infection as well, hospital sources had said.
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Mulayam Singh Yadav’s political journey
Mulayam Singh Yadav was born on November 22, 1939, in Saifai village, Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, to Murti Devi and Sughar Singh Yadav. Yadav took his plunge into politics after being inspired and motivated by Dr Ram Manohar Lohia’s socialist ideas and beliefs, and meeting Sarvashri Madhu Limaye, Karpoori Thakur, Ram Sewak Yadav, Raj Narayan, and Janeshwar Mishra. Throughout his political career, Mulayam Singh was associated with several controversies.
Short in height and high on a political drive, Yadav was 28 years old when he was elected as an MLA for the first time in 1967. Mulayam Singh’s political career lasted over five decades. He was elected 10 times as MLA and 7 times as Lok Sabha MP.
Yadav was elected as the Chief Minister of the state for the first time in 1989. Mulayam Singh created the Samajwadi Party in 1992 on the values of Ram Manohar Lohia and joined up with the Bahujan Samaj Party to win the UP Assembly elections in 1993. He had been Uttar Pradesh’s CM three times, from 1989 to 1991, 1993 to 1995, and 2003 to 2007. He was also the Defence Minister from 1996 to 1998.
Yadav’s emergence, interestingly, corresponds with the development of Hindutva in the late 1980s. In July this year, the Samajwadi Party patriarch`s wife Sadhna Gupta passed away after undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Gurugram for a lung infection.
