There are very few people in the world who are remembered even after leaving this world. Mulayam Singh Yadav is one such man. The Leader of the Samajwadi Party was admitted to Medanta Hospital where he took his last breath at 8.15 am.
Mulayam Singh Yadav has contributed a lot to the new dimensions created by the politics of Uttar Pradesh in independent India. Born in Saif village of Etawah, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s early life passed around this district. That is where his early education took place. took a BA and BT degree from KK College in Etawah. During this time, he came into contact with Lohia’s socialist ideology and was also the president of the same student union. People say that when Mulayam Singh Yadav was only fourteen years old, Ram Manohar Lohia Mulayam Singh went to jail for the first time for this movement, but his politics did not progress from this.
Mulayam Singh Yadav had been fond of wrestling since childhood. It was the specialty of Mulayam in the wrestling arena that he used to make wrestlers bigger than him admit defeat. One day in Karhal, located near Saifai, Mulayam was confronted by wrestler Saryudin Tripathi. Saryudin’s stature was much higher than Mulayam’s, even after this. Mulayam Singh Yadav made Saryudin stunned. Nathulal Singh met Mulayam and he joined him. Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav, cousin of Mulayam Singh Yadav, once said in a conversation that when Netaji, i.e. Mulayam Singh Yadav, used to fight wrestling… wrestling used to be at its final peak. So we used to close our eyes… Our eyes would only open when the crowd began shouting loudly that Patak Diya Patak Diya… Mulayam Singh Yadav had won the wrestling match.
Mulayam started playing an active role in the programmes of the Samyukta Samajwadi Party. Later, Mulayam Singh Yadav did his MA at Agra and became a teacher for some time.
After getting engrossed in socialism, Mulayam learned the skills of socialism from Etawah’s famous socialist leader, Arjun Singh Bhadaurian… Commander. Singh lobbied to give the ticket to Mulayam. Mulayam Singh Yadav won his first Vidhansabha election and served as MLA from here eight times after that.
He gave this seat to his younger brother, Shivpal Yadav, who is the MLA from there. When Mulayam first won the election from Jaswant Nagar, he was fired upon during his celebrations. His short stature saved him from being shot. The bullet hit the man standing behind him. Then Ram Manohar Lohia died in the same year, after which the socialist movement began to disintegrate. By then, Mulayam Singh Yadav had taken hold of the entire region. At the same time, Chowghari Charan Singh’s politics was progressing. He was a popular leader among the farmers. Mulayam Singh Yadav joined Chaudhary Charan Singh Bhartiya’s Kranti Dal and fought the next election under the banner of this party. Later, Samajwadi Revolutionary also merged with Charan Singh’s party, and this party came to be known as Lok Dal. Like other opposition leaders, Mulayam Singh Yadav also went to jail during the emergency.
After the emergency, when the Janata Party was formed, Mulayam was a very active member. Indian politics had completely changed after the Emergency. Following this, people realised the power of their vote… as a result, the upper castes’ dominance in politics began to erode…After the election, when Ram Naresh Yadav was made the Chief Minister of UP, Mulayam Singh Yadav was also a minister for the first time. He was made the Minister of Cooperation and the Animal Husbandry Department. It is said that the experience of the Cooperation Department came in handy for Mulayam throughout his life. The use of the politics of Janata Party A did not last long, and again the Congress came to power. Mulayam tried to strengthen himself among the farmers.
After the death of Chaudhary Charan Singh, Chaudhary Ajit Singh, who had studied in America, wanted to capture the party, but Mulayam opposed it. The result was that the party was torn in two. The faction in which Mulayam was headed was led by Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna. But he was not very active, so the real command of the party was in the hands of Mulayam. And his specialty was that he used to help every worker who came to him with work, no matter what party he belonged to. Because of this, the popularity of Mulayam started increasing day by day. When VP Singh rebelled against the Congress and formed the Janata Dal, Mulayam Singh reached the public, but it is a matter of fact that Ajit Singh was the first choice of VP. Ajit Singh had the support of the Delhi government in comparison to Mulayam Singh Yadav’s grip on the MLAs. It was not possible to make observers from Delhi the CM except Mulayam. His first term as Chief Minister lasted only one and a half years.
Throughout this period, Mulayam strongly opposed the temple movement. This was the reason why Mulayam Singh opened fire on the kar sevaks who reached Ayodhya. But Mulayam was not deterred by his decision… When Janata Dal broke up, Mulayam Singh Yadav preferred to go with Chandrashekhar’s SJP, i.e., Samajwadi Janata Party, instead of VP Singh. This also did not last very long. Riding on the tune of Ram Rath When the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power, Kalyan Singh became the Chief Minister. At that time, the number of SJP members in the state assembly was only twenty-four. On this strength, only one member could have been sent to Rajya Sabha from SJP. During that time, Chandrashekhar, the national president of the SJP, is said to have wanted to send socialist leader Mohan Singh to Rajya Sabha, but Mulayam Singh Yadav called his brother at the last minute.Ram Gopal Yadav was taken down and sent to the Rajya Sabha. With this, the ruling party broke down. After Kalyan Singh’s government was sacked, Mulayam created the Samajwadi Party and also added Bahujan Samaj Party leader Kashi Ram to it. The elections held during that time were easily won by SP. This tenure did not last very long and a mutual tussle broke it. Meanwhile, Mulayam Singh Yadav reached the Lok Sabha, where he was made Defense Minister in the H. D. Deve Gowda government at the Centre.
After the fall of this government, Mulayam’s name was put forward for the post of Prime Minister, but due to the opposition of Lalu and other satraps, he could not become Prime Minister. For a long time, the BSP and SP ruled UP, but the state was also subject to the President’s rule. In 2003, Mulayam managed to break the BSP MLAs and form the government. At that time, he was a member of the Lok Sabha, but when he contested from Gunnaur, he won with a huge vote margin. This was his longest tenure. It lasted three years. After this, when his party got an absolute majority in the 2012 elections, he handed over the reins to his son. Mulayam was appointed as a guardian after that. She is always an advocate of taking the party and family along, but says that not everything in life can be done at your behest. Mulayam tried to take everyone along so that he managed to bring everyone together in the party from the body but could not connect the hearts of the people among themselves.
