Mulayam Singh Yadav Funeral LIVE: Mulayam Singh Yadav cremated in Saifai

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Mulayam Singh Yadav cremated in Saifai

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav was cremated at his native Saifai village in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday afternoon

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Mulayam Singh Yadav's state funeral held in UP, top leaders attend

The funeral of veteran socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav was held with state honours at his native town Saifai in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district today

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Mallikarjun Kharge attends last rites of ex-UP CM

Congress presidential candidate Mallikarjun Kharge and other leaders of the party reach Saifai to attend the last rites of Mulayam Singh Yadav.

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Abhishek Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan attend last rites of Mulayam Singh Yadav

Actor Abhishek Bachchan along with his mother and Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan arrive in Saifai to pay their last respects to late Mulayam Singh Yadav

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Tejashwi Yadav arrives at funeral of Mulayam Singh Yadav

Tejashwi Yadav has arrived at the funeral of Mulayam Singh Yadav at his native Saifai in Uttar Pradesh

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Varun Gandhi seen consoling Akhilesh Yadav

MP Varun Gandhi was seen consoling Akhilesh Yadav at the last right of Mulayam Singh Yadav in Saifai.

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#Watch | People chant ‘Netaji amar rahein’ as a vehicle carries the mortal remains of Mulayam Singh

#WATCH | A large sea of people chants "Netaji amar rahein" as a vehicle carries the mortal remains of Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo and former Uttar Pradesh CM #MulayamSinghYadav for his last rites, in Saifai, Uttar Pradesh. pic.twitter.com/RMCzht2uI3— ANI (@ANI) October 11, 2022

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Last rites of Mulayam Singh Yadav start at Saifai

The final journey for Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav started at his ancestral village Saifai amid sea of crowd including party workers, politicians and the general public. The rituals for funeral commenced and shortly Akhilesh Yadav will light his father's pyre. 

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From trading barbs to walking hand-in-hand, Modi and Mulayam shared unique relationship

From trading barbs to walking hand-in-hand at public events, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav shared a unique relationship.

Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Yadav, sitting in the Opposition benches, left everyone present in Lok Sabha amused when he expressed the hope that Modi returns as the prime minister again.

The moment was recalled by Prime Minister Modi on Monday as he paid tributes to Yadav at an event in Bharuch (Gujarat) and said that they had a "special relationship".

"Even in the midst of our political differences, during the concluding session of the last Lok Sabha, the candid words of a senior leader like Mulayam Singh ji on the floor of the House were like a blessing," Modi said.

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'Antim darshan' over, Mulayam's body taken for cremation

'Antim darshan of Mulayam Singh Yadav at Saifai Mela ground has concluded. His body has been taken for cremation.

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Elevated platform constructed overnight for Mulayam's last rites

Scores of men worked through the night to create a platform for conducting the last rites of Mulayam Singh Yadav. They also raised a pandal to cover the area before the platform amid drizzles and overcast skies. Both the platform and the pandal are created inside the Mela ground premises, where the famous annual Saifai Mahotsav was held until five years ago.

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TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu, BJP's Rita Joshi pay tributes to Mulayam Singh Yadav

Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu and BJP leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi were among the leaders who arrived early at the Saifai Mela Ground pandal here to pay their last respects to Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav.

SP leader Dharmendra Yadav could not hold back his tears as he stood near the socialist leader's coffin.

Naidu, also the former Andhra Pradesh chief minister, termed Yadav's demise a "loss for Uttar Pradesh".

Joshi said Yadav never considered his political opponents as enemies and that he shared a personal bond with every leader.

The other leaders who paid their tributes to 'netaji' were his son and incumbent SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Yadav's brother and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) founder Shivpal Yadav, senior SP leaders Ramgopal Yadav, Swami Prasad Maurya, Dharmendra Yadav, Ram Gobind Chaudhary, Kiranmoy Nanda, and Om Prakash Singh.

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'Netaji' knew people of the region by their first names, recalls supporters

Samajwadi Party MLC Ashutosh Sinha, who is in Saifai to attend the last rites, told PTI, "I arrived here last night at around 10.00. People from different walks of life have been coming to pay their last tributes to 'netaji', and it continued in the morning as well. Party workers from across the country have assembled to have the final glimpse of their beloved 'netaji', and bid him a goodbye for the final time."

Manoj Mishra, a native of Etawah, reminisced how 'Netaji' knew people of the region by their first names. "Yadav was hugely popular among the locals for his connect with the masses," he told PTI.

Among the crowd queued outside the 'kothi' earlier in the morning was a group of six men who had come from Chunar village in Mirzapur in eastern UP.

The cremation is scheduled for the afternoon and preparations were underway for the last rites at Saifai amid heavy security presence.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar are likely to arrive here during the day.

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Sea of crowd in Saifai for Mulayam Singh Yadav's last rites

A sea of people descended here on Tuesday for the last rites of veteran socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav at his native Saifai village in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, the cloudy sky and intermittent morning drizzle adding to the sombreness.

The Samajwadi Party founder and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister passed away aged 82 at a private hospital in Gurugram on Monday.

His mortal remains were brought to Saifai Monday evening and kept at his 'kothi' where people poured in to pay their last respects to "Netaji", as Yadav was fondly called.

With hundreds queued up for the final darshan amid the drizzle, Yadav's body was moved around 10 am Tuesday from the house to a bigger hall on the Mela Ground premises, around one km away, to allow people to pay their last respects.

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Former Andhra Pradesh CM pays last respects to Mulayam Singh Yadav

Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh CM, N Chandrababu Naidu pays last respects to veteran politician Mulayam Singh Yadav, at Saifai, Uttar Pradesh

Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh CM, N Chandrababu Naidu pays last respects to veteran politician Mulayam Singh Yadav, at Saifai, Uttar Pradesh pic.twitter.com/Ivjt7f9A23— ANI (@ANI) October 11, 2022

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Mulayam Singh was deep-rooted leader who changed direction of UP politics: MP CM

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday remembered Mulayam Singh Yadav as a deep-rooted leader who changed the direction of politics in Uttar Pradesh.

State Congress unit president Kamal Nath said the late Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch was not a politician but a social worker in the real sense.

Yadav, a former defence minister who had also served as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh three times, passed away at 82.

"Yadav was a senior leader of the country. He was deep-rooted. He had changed the direction of politics in Uttar Pradesh. He played a major role in taking forward the socialist movement and had served the people of Uttar Pradesh," Chouhan said.

Chouhan's predecessor and veteran Congress leader Kamal Nath said Yadav was more of a social worker than a politician in the real sense.

"I have learnt a lot from him, Nath said recalling his association with the veteran leader.

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Mulayam Singh Yadav gave strong ideology to Samajwadi Party to stand against communal forces: Sharad Pawar

NCP president Sharad Pawar on Monday condoled the death of former defence minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and said he gave the Samajwadi Party a strong ideology to stand against communal forces and worked for creating a socialist society.

Yadav, 82, died on Monday at a hospital in Gurugram after prolonged illness. The Samajwadi Party founder and three-time chief minister of Uttar Pradesh was admitted to hospital since August and was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Gurugram-based Medanta Hospital on 2 October.

"Saddened to hear about the demise of Former CM of UP, former Defence Minister of India and Patriarch of Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav ji. He gave a strong ideology to Samajwadi Party to stand strong against communal forces & worked towards creating a socialist society, Pawar tweeted.

My heartfelt condolences to his family members, his party cadre and followers. May his soul rest in eternal peace, the NCP chief added.

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Mulayam Singh Yadav had close relations with Basu, proposed his name as PM: Nanda

Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav had a close association with Kolkata and it was he who proposed that Jyoti Basu be made the Prime Minister of the United Front government in 1996.

Basu, however, could not hold the top post as his party, the CPI(M), decided against it. The veteran Marxist later famously declared the party's decision not to be part of the United Front government as a 'historic blunder'.

SP vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda, a close aide of Yadav who died on Monday, said, initially V P Singh's name had come up for prime ministership of the UF, a 13-party coalition.

However, VP Singh rejected the offer to be the PM.

"Mulayam Singh Yadav had then said that Jyoti Basu should be the prime minister. He (Yadav) and I went to Banga Bhavan (in Delhi) and gave the proposal to Basu," Nanda said.

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Mulayam Singh's mortal remains placed on raised platform on stage at Saifai Pandal

Mulayam Singh's mortal remains are placed on the raised platform on the stage at Saifai Pandal. Almost the entire Yadav clan is present on stage.

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Union Minister Maneka Gandhi to reach Saifai

BJP MP and former Union Minister Maneka Gandhi will reach Saifai to attend the funeral of Mulayam Singh Yadav.

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Mulayam's body arrives at native Saifai village, people throng to pay tributes

Chants of "Netaji amar rahein" reverberated across Saifai as people from across length and breadth of Uttar Pradesh thronged socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav's native village for his last darshan Monday.

Yadav died on Monday morning at a private hospital in Gurugram and his mortal remains reached here in the evening.

The body of the Samajwadi Party patriarch has been kept at his 'kothi' and the cremation will take place on Tuesday afternoon.

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Congress CMs Gehlot, Baghel to attend Mulayam's funeral in Saifai

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his Chhattisgarh counterpart Bhupesh Baghel will represent the Congress at the funeral of Samajwadi Party veteran Mulayam Singh Yadav who passed away on Monday. Congress veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge will also take part in the funeral which will take place in Mulayam's native village of Saifai in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district on Tuesday, as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha.

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People turn out in large numbers to pay their tributes to Mulayam Singh Yadav

UP | People turn out in large numbers to pay their tributes to Samajwadi Party supremo and former CM Mulayam Singh Yadav at his ancestral home in Saifai

Several CMs and other leaders are expected to attend the last rites to be held today pic.twitter.com/CkLVHVnCfK— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) October 11, 2022

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Mulayam Singh Yadav's last rites to be held in his ancestral village Saifai today

The final rites of Samajwadi Party patriarch and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav will take place at his ancestral village Saifai in Etawah district on Tuesday.

Mulayam Singh passed away on Monday morning at the age of 82 at Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital due to age-related ailments. He was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital last Sunday after his health deteriorated. He is survived by two sons, Akhilesh and Prateek.

Several chief ministers along with the Speaker of Lok Sabha, Om Birla expected to attend the funeral.

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UP: Last rites of Mulayam Singh Yadav in his ancestral village Saifai today

The final rites of Samajwadi Party patriarch and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav will take place at his ancestral village Saifai in Etawah district on Tuesday.

Mulayam Singh passed away on Monday morning at the age of 82 at Gurugram's Medanta Hospital due to age-related ailments. He was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital last Sunday after his health deteriorated. He is survived by two sons, Akhilesh and Prateek.

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The final rites of SP founder to take place at Saifai today

Several CMs along with the Speaker of Lok Sabha, Om Birla expected to attend the funeral.

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Hundreds gather at SP office in Lucknow to mourn demise of Mulayam Singh Yadav

All roads in Lucknow on Monday led to the Vikramaditya Marg Samajwadi Party office, where hundreds of party leaders and workers gathered after learning about the demise of their 'Netaji' Mulayam Singh Yadav.

As a mark of mourning, the party flag was flown at half-mast.

The 82-year-old SP patriarch died at the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram earlier in the day after prolonged illness.

Senior SP leaders including state president Naresh Uttam Patel, Rajendra Chowdhury, Ram Achal Rajbhar, Lalji Verma and others gathered at the party office and garlanded a photograph of Yadav.

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