New Delhi: Samajwadi Get together founder Mulayam Singh Yadav was cremated with full state honours at his ancestral village in Saifai, Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday night.
Singh died at a Gurugram hospital in Haryana on Monday morning after a chronic sickness. He was 82.
The Uttar Pradesh authorities has declared a three-day mourning in tribute to the stalwart politician who has been the state’s chief minister for thrice. He has been Lok Sabha MP for seven phrases and the nation’s defence minister as soon as.
A number of political leaders, together with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, attended the funeral within the night. A sea of individuals could possibly be heard chanting “netaji amar rahein” as Yadav’s mortal stays had been carried in a automobile for his final rites.
Condoling his dying, Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to as the chief “a key soldier for democracy in the course of the Emergency”.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi stated the voice of socialist concepts had fallen silent with Yadav’s dying. “His battle for the oppressed and downtrodden will at all times be remembered,” she added.
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh referred to as Yadav an icon of the socialist motion “who devoted his complete life to the service of the poor and different backward communities”.
On the funeral, the Congress was represented by celebration presidential candidate Mallikarjun Kharge, MP Pramod Tiwari and different leaders.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla referred to as the departed politician a “chief of the folks”. “All through his life, he advocated for the poor and farmers,” Birla stated on the funeral.
Others current on the funeral had been Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, PSP chief Shivpal Yadav, Samajwadi Get together MP Jaya Bachchan and her son Abhishek.
Yadav’s son and current Samajwadi celebration chief Akhilesh Yadav lit the chief’s pyre.
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