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New Delhi [India], January 13 (ANI): Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday paid tribute to socialist chief and former Union minister Sharad Yadav, who handed away final evening.

The Wayanad MP reached Yadav’s Delhi residence and met the members of the family of the late chief.

“I’ve learnt quite a bit about politics from Sharad Yadav Ji. His passing away at this time has left me saddened. He shared a relationship of respect with my ‘dadi’ (Indira Gandhi),” Rahul Gandhi informed reporters whereas leaving Yadav’s residence.

Sharad Yadav breathed his final on Thursday at Fortis Hospital in Gurugram the place he was rushed after he collapsed at his residence in Delhi.

The veteran chief was affected by kidney-related points for a very long time and commonly underwent dialysis.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi additionally expressed condolences over the demise of the veteran politician and founder-member of Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JDU).

Taking to Twitter, PM Modi mentioned, “Pained by the passing away of Shri Sharad Yadav Ji. In his lengthy years in public life, he distinguished himself as MP and Minister. He was tremendously impressed by Dr Lohia’s beliefs. I’ll all the time cherish our interactions. Condolences to his household and admirers. Om Shanti.”

A condolence message additionally got here from Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.

“I’m saddened by the demise of Sharad Yadav, a senior chief of the socialist stream of the nation, former JDU president. Serving the nation as a former Union Minister and an excellent Parliamentarian for many years, he strengthened the politics of equality. My deepest condolences to his household and supporters,” Mallikarjun Kharge tweeted in Hindi.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar too expressed condolences over the demise of socialist chief and former Union Minister Sharad Yadav.

“Saddened by the demise of former Union Minister Sharad Yadav. I had a really deep relationship with Sharad Yadav ji. I’m shocked and saddened by the information of his demise. He was a robust socialist chief. His demise has induced an irreparable loss within the social and political subject. Might his soul relaxation in peace,” tweeted the Bihar Chief Minister.

Bahujan Samaj Occasion (BSP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati additionally condoled the demise of Sharad Yadav.

“The information of the demise of Sharad Yadav, a outstanding face within the nation’s politics, who was a member of each homes of Parliament and a former minister for a very long time, could be very unhappy. My deepest condolences to his household and all his family members. Might nature offers all of them the power to bear this sorrow,” tweeted Mayawati. Sharad Yadav was born on July 1, 1947, in Babai Village in Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad.

A socialist chief who remained a outstanding determine for a big a part of his political life, particularly within the peak period of coalitions, Sharad Yadav solid a number of alliances and turns of the journey noticed pals turning into foes after which once more returning again to forge partnerships.

In his political life spanning almost 5 many years, Sharad Yadav served as a Union Minister, convenor of the Nationwide Democratic Alliance and the president of Janata Dal-United.

He was a outstanding chief from the socialist block in parallel with different socialist leaders just like the late Mulayam Singh Yadav and George Fernandes.

Sharad Yadav’s political profession rose in the course of the anti-Congress motion within the 70s.

The yr was 1974, it was his Lok Sabha by-poll win from Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur because the opposition candidate in opposition to the Congress which boosted its political struggle in opposition to the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.

After Emergency, he gained once more in 1977 and marked himself counted amongst a number of leaders to have come out of the anti-Emergency motion.

In 1979 Yadav grew to become the nationwide common secretary of the Lok Dal. Eight years later, in 1987, he was concerned within the occasions that led to the founding of the Janata Dal (JD) in 1988, underneath the management of V.P. Singh. When Singh grew to become prime minister of a short-lived coalition authorities (1989-90), Yadav was inducted into the cupboard as head of the Textiles and Meals Processing Industries Ministry.

Sharad Yadav served as a minister within the VP Singh authorities in 1989, however his highpoint got here after a decade within the late Nineties, when he was within the fray in opposition to former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in Madhepura, a parliamentary seat dominated by voters from the Yadav caste, and drubbed the latter which earned him a ministerial berth in Atal Bihari Vajpayee authorities.

In 1997 Yadav grew to become president of the Janata Dal. Nevertheless, in 1999 a spilt occurred within the occasion when he selected to make the Janata Dal a part of the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP)-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition authorities. A faction led by H.D. Deve Gowda strongly opposed that transfer and left the Janata Dal to kind a brand new occasion that grew to become often called Janata Dal (Secular), or JD(S).

Yadav remained the pinnacle of his personal faction, which took the title Janata Dal-United (JD-U). He served within the NDA cupboard because the minister of civil aviation, labour, and shopper affairs, meals, and public distribution.

The JD(U) was reconstituted as a brand new occasion in 2003 after smaller events merged with it.

In 2006, Yadav was elected occasion president. He was once more elected to the Lok Sabha from Madhepura in 2009. However after the JD(U)’s defeat within the 2014 common elections, Sharad Yadav’s relations with Nitish Kumar noticed a change.

Within the Bihar meeting elections of 2017, when the JD(U) underneath Nitish Kumar realigned with the BJP (the 2 events had been companions within the 2004 and 2009 common elections), Sharad Yadav refused to comply with.

Yadav who had launched his personal occasion Loktantrik Janata Dal, merged with Lalu Yadav’s outfit RJD in March 2020 which he mentioned was the “first step in the direction of a united opposition”. (ANI)

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