Mulayam Singh Yadav: I P Singh, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, demanded on Wednesday that Mulayam Singh Yadav, the late party’s founder, receive the “Bharat Ratna,” the nation’s highest civilian honour.
The spokesperson for the party also demanded that the Agra-Lucknow expressway be renamed the Dhartiputra Mulayam Singh Yadav Expressway in honour of the late former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, who passed away on Monday at the age of 82.
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In a letter to President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday, Mr. Singh stated that the passing of Mulayam Singh Yadav, “who fought the historic battle of social justice and dedicated his life to the nation,” marked the end of a golden era for socialism in the nation.
“He was chief minister of Uttar Pradesh thrice as well as the defence minister once, but he always remained a grassroots leader. He was a messiah of the poor and did politics for their welfare,” Mr Singh said in his letter in Hindi on the party letterhead.
“The entire country is mourning the death of Yadav and there is a sense of despair among all. In such a situation, taking care of the sentiments of crores of his supporters and every soldier of socialist ideology, an immediate announcement should be made to confer the country’s highest civilian award ‘Bharat Ratna’ on Yadav,” he said.
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Separately, Mr. Singh requested in a letter to Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, that the Agra-Lucknow Expressway be renamed the Dhartiputra Mulayam Singh Yadav Expressway. The founder of the Samajwadi Party passed away on October 10 at Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital. On Tuesday, his final rites were carried out in his native Saifai village.
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