Mulayam Singh Yadav, founder of Samajwadi Party and a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, will be laid to rest on Tuesday at his ancestral home in the Etawah district town of Saifai.
Mulayam Singh passed away on Monday morning at the age of 82 from illnesses associated with ageing at Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital. Following a decline in his condition, he was brought to the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) last Sunday. Akhilesh and Prateek, his two kids, are still living. The burial was anticipated to be attended by a number of chief ministers and Om Birla, Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
According to reports, the chief minister of Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot, and his counterpart from Chhattisgarh, Bhupesh Baghel, will represent the Congress at the veteran of the Samajwadi Party’s cremation.
Mallikarjun Kharge, a seasoned leader in the Congress, will attend the burial on Tuesday. Kharge won’t take over as the party’s formal leader because he is running for party president.
It is unclear at this time if Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, who are in Karnataka for the Bharat Jodo Yatra, would be present.
After the death of the seasoned Samajwadi Party politician and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, tributes began to come in. Earlier on Monday, Samajwadi Party founder and seasoned politician Mulayam Singh Yadav passed away. President Droupadi Murmu offered his condolences, calling his passing an “irreparable loss” to the nation.
