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Mulayam Singh Yadav: ‘Wrestler’ who won many political battles in UP India News – Times of India

October 10, 2022
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New Delhi: East Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav He died on Monday at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram after prolonged illness.
“My respected father and everyone’s ‘Netaji’ is no more,” said former UP CM and Soft lion’s son Akhilesh Yadav said in a tweet on Monday.

Mulayam Singh Yadav was undergoing treatment at the hospital since August. Sources said that he was admitted to the hospital in July as well.
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On being admitted to the hospital, his son Akhilesh Yadav, daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav and brother Shivpal Singh Yadav had gone to meet him.

Know here 15 things about the former Chief Minister of UP-

  1. Mulayam Singh Yadav founded the Samajwadi (Samajwadi) Party in 1992.
  2. He served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh thrice (1989–91, 1993–95 and 2003–07).
  3. Mulayam was born on 22 November 1939 in a poor farmer family. He was born in Saifai village of Etawah district of UP.
  4. He initially wanted to become a wrestler, but went to college and completed his master’s degree in political science from Agra University.
  5. He joined politics at the age of 15 when he encountered the writings of socialist Ram Manohar Lohia. Lohia’s firm belief on equality of the people and other social-justice issues greatly influenced Yadav’s own views and his subsequent political career.
  6. Yadav’s first electoral victory came in 1967 when he won a seat in the lower house of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Jaswantnagar. He was re-elected in 1974, but his term was interrupted when he was one of the opposition politicians arrested in 1975 and stayed for 19 months during the national emergency imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. After his release in 1977, he contested and won from his seat in the assembly.
  7. He had to go to jail nine times during various movements for the protection and welfare of the rights of farmers, labourers, youth, students, minorities and backward classes.
  8. In 1977, Yadav also became the president of the Lok Dal (People’s Party) in Uttar Pradesh.
  9. In 1980, Yadav was elected the president of the Janata Dal (JD).
  10. In 1989, the JD, with outside support from the BJP – formed the UP government with Yadav as the chief minister. His government fell in 1991.
  11. Yadav found a new political career in December 1992 after the demolition of the Babri Masjid and riots broke out. She and her newly formed Samajwadi Party (founded in October 1992) emerged as advocates of Muslims who credited them with supporting the Congress government in New Delhi when it failed to protect the mosque.
  12. In November 1993, the SP won enough seats to form a coalition government, and Yadav again became chief minister the following month. His government fell in 1995.
  13. In 1996, Yadav won a seat in the Lok Sabha and came close to becoming the PM. He was overtaken by JD’s HD Deve Gowda, who emerged as the consensus candidate of the United Front (UF) coalition government (of which the SP was a member). Yadav settled for the Minister of Defense in the UF government.
  14. The SP made a dramatic comeback in the 2002 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, securing a plethora of seats, but not a majority. However, after the collapse of a short-lived BSP-BJP coalition government in 2003, the SP put together its own governing coalition and Yadav became chief minister for the third time.
  15. In early 2012, the SP won an outright majority in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Yadav retained his leadership of the party, but he stepped aside to allow his son Akhilesh Yadav to become the chief minister of the state.

(with inputs from agencies)