Mulayam Singh Yadav

2022 - 10 - 10

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Mulayam Singh rose amid ferment in UP, his journey would run ... (The Indian Express)

Three-term CM, eight-term MLA and seven-time MP, Mulayam Singh Yadav ousted Congress from power, forged a Muslim-Yadav combination and was known to speak ...

He was a strong advocate of the use of Hindi in official communiqué, and often spoke against promotion of English. During his tenure, he called China “a bigger enemy” of India than Pakistan, and maintained this position till the last. Mulayam became CM for the third time in 2003. It was during his first regime that police opened fire on kar sevaks gathered in Ayodhya on the call of the VHP, RSS and BJP leaders, on October 30 1989. Emerging as a socialist leader, Mulayam soon established himself as an OBC stalwart, capturing a swathe of political space vacated by the Congress. Mulayam’s rise in UP politics, which started from his college days, coincided with a period of intense social and political ferment after the 1970s.

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Indian socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav dies at 82 (North Wales Pioneer)

His death was announced by his son, Akhilesh Yadav, political heir to his Samajwadi Party that holds sway in India's largest state of Uttar…

The community became his party’s major voting bloc. In 2012, Mr Yadav handed the charge of his political party to his son, who became the state’s chief minister for five years. At least 16 people were killed in police action.

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A timeline of Mulayam Singh Yadav's journey in Indian politics (bizzbuzz)

The founder of Samajwadi Party and Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav breathed his last today at Gurugram's Medanta Hospital.

The founder of Samajwadi Party and Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav breathed his last today at Gurugram's Medanta Hospital. Former Uttar Pradesh CM, Akhilesh Yadav is the only child of Mulayam Singh Yadav from his first wife Malati Devi. The founder of Samajwadi Party and Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav breathed his last today at Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital.

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Mulayam Singh's mortal remains arrive at native Saifai village (The Hindu)

Besides a large number of people who waited for the mortal remains at the venue, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, former MP Dharmendra Yadav and other ...

Yadav, a former Defence Minister who had also served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh three times, passed away at 82 on Monday. Traders in the district have decided to keep the markets closed on October 11 as a mark of respect to their leader. [Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/obituary-mulayam-singh-yadav-1939-2022/article65991280.ece) arrived at his native Saifai village in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah on Monday evening, hours after [the leader died at a Gurugram hospital](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/samajwadi-party-founder-mulayam-singh-yadav-passes-away/article65991260.ece).

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Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav passes away (Economic Times)

The former defence minister was admitted to Gurugrams Medanta Hospital in August and shifted to its Intensive Care Unit on October 2.

He was a great parliamentarian and a distinguished administrator who devoted his whole life to the service of the poor and other backward communities.” Former CM of J&K and MP from Srinagar, Farooq Abdullah, said Yadav was a towering leader who the country desperately needed in the current times. Hwas an icon of the socialist movement and had been elected to the Uttar Pradesh state assembly and to the Lok Sabha several times. Modi said that after the BJP nominated him as the prime ministerial candidate in 2013, he had reached out to senior political leaders of the opposition whom he knew earlier to seek their blessing. The village falls in Jaswantnagar, the constituency from where he was elected to the state assembly the first time in 1967, representing Ram Manohar Lohia’s Sanyukt Socialist Party. [Samajwadi Party](/topic/samajwadi-party)founder and three-time [Uttar Pradesh](/topic/uttar-pradesh)chief minister [Mulayam Singh Yadav](/topic/mulayam-singh-yadav), who spawned the state’s most prominent political clan and played a key role on the national stage, died on Monday after prolonged illness.

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Mulayam Singh Yadav: Early Life, Career, Education, family and ... (Current Affairs)

Let us know about the Early Life, Education, Family and Political Career of Founder of SP and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Late Mulayam Singh ...

- Mulayam Singh Yadav founded the Samajwadi Party in 1992. Singh administration fell in November 1990, Yadav joined Chandra Shekhar’s Janata Dal (Socialist), and he kept his position as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh with the backing of the Congress and the Janata Dal. Mulayam Singh Yadav was born in Saifai, in the Indian state of Etawah, Uttar Pradesh. He ran for the Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha seats of Azamgarh and Mainpuri in the general elections of 2014. He ran for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha Constituency in the 2019 General Elections and won. In 1960, Mulayam joined the “Janata Dal.” He was chosen to represent Uttar Pradesh as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in 1967. Mulayam Singh Yadav had a romance with Sadhana Gupta in the 1980s while still married to his first wife. Mulayam Singh Yadav married twice in his lifetime. In the heartland of Saifai, Etawah, and Mainpuri, Mulayam Singh Yadav has never lost an election. - In 1985, the Janata Dal was split. Mulayam Singh Yadav moved to Agra to do his post graduate studies after completing his undergraduate degree at AK College in Shikohabad. After completing his primary and secondary studies, Mulayam Singh Yadav enrolled at Karm Kshetra Post Graduate College in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in politics.

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