Lucknow: Mulayam Singh Yadav, the three-time Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, has passed away. Let us tell you that Mulayam Singh Yadav died at the age of 82. He breathed his last at 8:16 am today (October 10) at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram. Confirming the death, SP president Akhilesh Yadav said, "My respected father and everyone's leader is no more.'' Mulayam Singh Yadav was admitted to the hospital on August 22 after he complained of breathlessness and low blood pressure. His health was not improving and he was shifted to the ICU on the night of October 1, where a panel of doctors was treating him.

If we talk about his political career, it was five and a half decades long. Mulayam Singh Yadav jumped into the political arena with the thinking of anti-Congress politics and took the path of socialism with Ram Manohar Lohia. Yes, Mulayam Singh Yadav achieved political heights with the help of Chaudhary Charan Singh. The wrestler-turned-politician was a strong 'wrestler' of politics of his era. Let us also tell you that Mulayam was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the country's largest state in terms of population, three times and now his son Akhilesh Yadav is handling the Samajwadi Party.

At the same time, after going to the chief minister's chair in 1995, Mulayam's stature did not fall in politics, but he stood bigger. Yes and in the year 1996, he was elected a member of the 11th Lok Sabha from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency. When no party got a majority at the Centre, Mulayam became Kingemkar. At the same time, he became the Defense Minister in the Third Front government and made many leaders of his party ministers at the Center. However, his tenure was not long.

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