58 Facts About Mulayam Singh Yadav

Mulayam Singh Yadav was a Indian politician, a socialist figure and founder of the Samajwadi Party.

Mulayam Singh Yadav was born to Murti Devi and Sughar Singh Yadav on 22 November 1939 in Saifai village, Etawah district, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Akhilesh Mulayam Singh Yadav is his only son from his first marriage to Malti Devi.

Mulayam Singh Yadav paternally belonged to Itoli village, Jasrana Block, Firozabad District, Uttar Pradesh, India.

In 1975, during Indira Gandhi's imposition of the Emergency, Mulayam Singh Yadav was arrested and detained for 19 months.

Mulayam Singh Yadav first became a state minister in 1977.

Mulayam Singh Yadav first became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1989.

Mulayam Singh Yadav allowed police to use live rounds in an attempt at crowd control.

Muslims in Uttar Pradesh credited Mulayam Singh Yadav for saving the mosque in 1990 and became the major voting bloc of Samajwadi Party.

The BJP withdrew its support to the V P Singh ministry, necessitating fresh elections.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's government fell when the INC withdrew its support in April 1991 in the aftermath of developments at the national level where it had earlier withdrawn its support for Chandra Shekhar's government.

In 1992, Mulayam Singh Yadav founded his own Samajwadi Party.

In 1993, Mulayam Singh Yadav became the Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second time.

Mulayam Singh Yadav became chief minister of Uttar Pradesh with the support of Congress and Janata Dal.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's stand on the movement for demanding separate statehood for Uttarakhand was as controversial as his stand on the Ayodhya movement in 1990 was.

Mulayam Singh Yadav continued holding that post until his ally opted into another alliance in June 1995.

The BJP pulled out of the government on 25 August 2003, and enough rebel legislators of the Bahujan Samaj Party left to allow Mulayam Singh Yadav to become the Chief Minister, with the support of independents and small parties.

Mulayam Singh Yadav was sworn in as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the third time in September 2003.

Mulayam Singh Yadav was still a member of the Lok Sabha when he was sworn in as chief minister.

Mulayam Singh Yadav won by a record margin of 1,83,899 votes, polling 91.45 per cent of the votes.

Mulayam Singh Yadav won the seat and his Samajwadi Party won more seats in Uttar Pradesh than all other parties.

Mulayam Singh Yadav resigned from the Lok Sabha and chose to continue as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh until the 2007 elections, when he lost to the BSP.

Mulayam Singh Yadav was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly ten times and to the Parliament of India, Lok Sabha seven times.

In 1996, Mulayam Singh Yadav was elected to the eleventh Lok Sabha from Mainpuri constituency.

Mulayam Singh Yadav contested the Lok Sabha general elections of 1999 from two seats, Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency and Kannauj Lok Sabha constituency, and won both seats.

Mulayam Singh Yadav resigned from the Kannauj seat for his son Akhilesh in the by-elections.

Mulayam Singh Yadav was elected in the 2014 Indian general election.

Mulayam Singh Yadav became an MP in the 16th Lok Sabha from Azamgarh and Mainpuri.

Mulayam Singh Yadav was re-elected in the 2019 Indian general election from Mainpuri for a fifth time.

Mulayam Singh Yadav died in 2022, two years before the end of his term.

In 1992, Mulayam Singh Yadav founded his own Samajwadi Party.

Samajwadi Party and Mulayam Singh Yadav emerged as the advocates for Muslims.

On 30 December 2016, Mulayam Yadav expelled his son Akhilesh and his cousin Ram Gopal from the party for six years on the grounds of indiscipline, only to revoke the decision 24 hours later.

Hence Akhilesh Mulayam Singh Yadav officially became the new national leader of the party.

Mulayam Singh Yadav had been elected 10 times as MLA and 7 times as Lok Sabha MP.

Mulayam Singh Yadav said it is necessary for India to support a sovereign and independent Tibet.

Mulayam Singh Yadav said that a past government had made a "big mistake" on the issue and noted that he had spoken against it at the time.

Mulayam Singh Yadav believed that Tibet was a traditional buffer between China and India and that India should support the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence.

Additionally, political leaders like Raj Thackeray and the then Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi heavily slammed Mulayam Singh Yadav for making such insensitive comments regarding women when they appeared on prime time TV show Aap Ki Adalat hosted by Rajat Sharma, who agreed with both Thackeray and Modi.

Mulayam Singh Yadav was summoned by the Judicial Magistrate of Mahoba district court in Uttar Pradesh for that remark.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's comments were termed as a national embarrassment after they were reported in international media outlets.

Thakur alleged that Mulayam Singh Yadav had threatened him over the phone call.

Mulayam Singh Yadav released the audio of the phone call, in which Yadav is allegedly heard saying certain sentences, which Thakur called as being threatening in nature.

Thakur alleged that Mulayam Singh was unhappy about the complaint lodged by his wife activist and advocate Nutan Thakur against the then state mining minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati for illegal sand mining.

Mulayam Singh Yadav was criticised for his actions in the Ayodhya firing incident in 1990, which led to the death of 17 Kar Sevaks by the Uttar Pradesh Police.

Mulayam Singh Yadav was given the sobriquet 'Mulla' Mulayam Singh for his extremely pro-Muslim anti-Hindu stance during the incident.

Mulayam Singh Yadav lost the 1991 election to the Bharatiya Janata Party in the aftermath of this incident.

Mulayam Singh Yadav charged Ansari under relevant sections of Prevention of Terrorism Act for attempting to acquire a Light Machine Gun, a weapon which can only be acquired by the Armed Forces.

Ansari's death was labelled suspicious, as Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Mulayam Singh Yadav demanded an enquiry into his death stating that Ansari was poisoned in prison days after his conviction.

Mulayam Singh Yadav supported another gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed, who was assassinated in 2023.

Mulayam Singh Yadav was criticized for insulting the family of Sr Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, the officer killed in the encounter.

Mulayam Singh Yadav has faced widespread condemnation by several opposing leaders for promoting toxic patriarchal mindsets, as well as misogynistic and anti-women views.

Mulayam Singh Yadav opposed the bill and warned about withdrawing from the alliance, commenting that "if the bill is passed it will fill Parliament with the kind of women who invite catcalls and whistles".

Mulayam Singh Yadav echoed similar comments in November 2012, stating that "the bill will benefit only rich and attractive women of the society and not those coming poor families and villages".

Mulayam Singh Yadav had a relationship with Sadhana Gupta while still married to Malti Devi in the 1990s.

Mulayam Singh Yadav had four brothers and a sister, Kamla Devi.

In September 2022, Mulayam Singh Yadav was admitted to hospital and put on a ventilator after his condition deteriorated.

Mulayam Singh Yadav died on 10 October 2022 at age 82 in a Medanta hospital in Gurgaon.