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Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav and respective elder enactment leaders connected Friday (October 10, 2025) paid floral tributes to party laminitis Mulayam Singh Yadav astatine his autochthonal village, Saifai, connected his decease anniversary. Prominent SP leaders, including Shivpal Yadav, Rajya Sabha MPs Ram Gopal Yadav and Ramji Lal Suman, and respective others, attended the memorial event.
Speaking to reporters connected the occasion, Akhilesh Yadav said the tract would soon location a memorial dedicated to the precocious SP leader. "This volition beryllium a memorial successful Netaji's [Mulayam Singh Yadav] name, a memorial for each socialists. It volition proceed to animate generations. Through it, Netaji volition unrecorded connected successful our lives successful the signifier of his ideas," helium said.
Earlier, Rajya Sabha MP Ramji Lal Suman told PTIVideos that Mulayam Singh Yadav held a important spot successful India's socialist movement. "I bash not spot it arsenic an accomplishment that helium became the Defence Minister oregon the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. When each socialist factions merged into the Janata Party successful 1977, the socialist question practically ended successful India. But successful 1992, Mulayam Singh Yadav agreed socialists crossed the state to signifier the Samajwadi Party," helium said.
Mr. Suman added that arsenic agelong arsenic "helplessness, unemployment, and inequality" beryllium successful the world, socialist ideology volition stay relevant. "Whether past writes 4 pages oregon 4 lines astir him, helium volition everlastingly beryllium remembered successful India's socialist movement," helium said.
Senior person and Rajya Sabha MP Ram Gopal Yadav, who is besides Mulayam Singh Yadav's brother, said his enactment basal extended acold beyond his party. "Throughout his life, Netaji ne'er turned distant anyone who sought his help, adjacent from different parties. I americium a witnesser to it that whenever helium was Chief Minister, helium intelligibly instructed his caput that if anyone, whether from the BJP, the Congress oregon the BSP, came for genuine enactment oregon those acrophobic to their relatives, they should beryllium helped without delay," helium recalled.
"He fought for the mediocre and gave respect to the deprived sections of society. Those who didn't cognize the mode to Delhi, helium made them Members of Parliament, those unfamiliar with Lucknow, helium made them MLAs," Mr. Gopal Yadav said, adding that Mulayam Singh gave the marginalised "the dignity to locomotion with their heads held high."
A seasoned socialist person inspired by Ram Manohar Lohia, helium was known for his heavy grassroots connections and mobilisation of Backward Classes.
Over his five-decade governmental career, Yadav served aggregate presumption arsenic some MLA and MP. He passed distant connected October 10, 2022, astatine the property of 82. His past rites were done astatine his autochthonal village, Saifai.
