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A sea of people descended here on Tuesday for the last rites of veteran socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav at his native Saifai village in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, the cloudy sky and intermittent morning drizzle adding to the sombreness.
The Samajwadi Party founder and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister passed away aged 82 at a private hospital in Gurugram on Monday.
His mortal remains were brought to Saifai Monday evening and kept at his ‘kothi’ where people poured in to pay their last respects to “Netaji”, as Yadav was fondly called.
With hundreds queued up for the final darshan amid the drizzle, Yadav’s body was moved around 10 am Tuesday from the house to a bigger hall on the Mela Ground premises, around one km away, to allow people to pay their last respects.
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Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh CM, N Chandrababu Naidu pays last respects to veteran politician Mulayam Singh Yadav, at Saifai, Uttar Pradesh
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh CM, N Chandrababu Naidu pays last respects to veteran politician Mulayam Singh Yadav, at Saifai, Uttar Pradesh pic.twitter.com/Ivjt7f9A23
Mulayam Singh Yadav Funeral LIVE
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday remembered Mulayam Singh Yadav as a deep-rooted leader who changed the direction of politics in Uttar Pradesh.
State Congress unit president Kamal Nath said the late Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch was not a politician but a social worker in the real sense.
Yadav, a former defence minister who had also served as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh three times, passed away at 82.
“Yadav was a senior leader of the country. He was deep-rooted. He had changed the direction of politics in Uttar Pradesh. He played a major role in taking forward the socialist movement and had served the people of Uttar Pradesh,” Chouhan said.
Chouhan’s predecessor and veteran Congress leader Kamal Nath said Yadav was more of a social worker than a politician in the real sense.
“I have learnt a lot from him, Nath said recalling his association with the veteran leader.
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Mulayam Singh Yadav gave strong ideology to Samajwadi Party to stand against communal forces: Sharad Pawar
NCP president Sharad Pawar on Monday condoled the death of former defence minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and said he gave the Samajwadi Party a strong ideology to stand against communal forces and worked for creating a socialist society.
Yadav, 82, died on Monday at a hospital in Gurugram after prolonged illness. The Samajwadi Party founder and three-time chief minister of Uttar Pradesh was admitted to hospital since August and was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Gurugram-based Medanta Hospital on 2 October.
“Saddened to hear about the demise of Former CM of UP, former Defence Minister of India and Patriarch of Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav ji. He gave a strong ideology to Samajwadi Party to stand strong against communal forces & worked towards creating a socialist society, Pawar tweeted.
My heartfelt condolences to his family members, his party cadre and followers. May his soul rest in eternal peace, the NCP chief added.
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Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav had a close association with Kolkata and it was he who proposed that Jyoti Basu be made the Prime Minister of the United Front government in 1996.
Basu, however, could not hold the top post as his party, the CPI(M), decided against it. The veteran Marxist later famously declared the party’s decision not to be part of the United Front government as a ‘historic blunder’.
SP vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda, a close aide of Yadav who died on Monday, said, initially V P Singh’s name had come up for prime ministership of the UF, a 13-party coalition.
However, VP Singh rejected the offer to be the PM.
“Mulayam Singh Yadav had then said that Jyoti Basu should be the prime minister. He (Yadav) and I went to Banga Bhavan (in Delhi) and gave the proposal to Basu,” Nanda said.
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Mulayam Singh’s mortal remains are placed on the raised platform on the stage at Saifai Pandal. Almost the entire Yadav clan is present on stage.
Mulayam Singh Yadav Funeral LIVE
BJP MP and former Union Minister Maneka Gandhi will reach Saifai to attend the funeral of Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Mulayam Singh Yadav Funeral LIVE
Chants of “Netaji amar rahein” reverberated across Saifai as people from across length and breadth of Uttar Pradesh thronged socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav’s native village for his last darshan Monday.
Yadav died on Monday morning at a private hospital in Gurugram and his mortal remains reached here in the evening.
The body of the Samajwadi Party patriarch has been kept at his ‘kothi’ and the cremation will take place on Tuesday afternoon.
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his Chhattisgarh counterpart Bhupesh Baghel will represent the Congress at the funeral of Samajwadi Party veteran Mulayam Singh Yadav who passed away on Monday. Congress veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge will also take part in the funeral which will take place in Mulayam’s native village of Saifai in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah district on Tuesday, as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha.
Mulayam Singh Yadav Funeral LIVE
UP People turn out in large numbers to pay their tributes to Samajwadi Party supremo and former CM Mulayam Singh Yadav at his ancestral home in Saifai
Several CMs and other leaders are expected to attend the last rites to be held today pic.twitter.com/CkLVHVnCfK