New Delhi: Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav passed away today at the age of 82. He breathed his last at 8:15 am today. According to reports, Mulayam Singh Yadav was admitted to Medanta Hospital a few days ago due to a urine infection, blood pressure problems and breathlessness. Mulayam Singh, who came out of the Socialist movement and became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh four times, was once called 'Mulla Mulayam'. The reason was he sank into Muslim appeasement.  

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This was the time when Uttar Pradesh was burning with the fire of agitations. Movement politics was in full swing regarding Mandal Commission and Ram temple. Mulayam Singh was the CM of Uttar Pradesh at this time. He warned that 'demolishing Babri is too far, no one can move around the mosque.' In obedience to this promise of Mulayam, the river Saryu turned red with the blood of Kar Sevaks. There was a gathering of Kar Sevaks in Ayodhya and in order to 'save' the Babri Masjid from the furious Kar Sevaks, on 30 October 1990, on the orders of Mulayam Singh Yadav, the police opened fire on the Kar Sevaks, in which more than 50 Kar Sevaks lost their lives. The holy land of Ayodhya was covered with the dead bodies of Kar Sevaks, but by doing this action Mulayam Singh became the messiah of Muslims. From here he got a new name in politics 'Mulla Mulayam'.

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After this, the entire Muslim society of UP joined Mulayam Singh and the Samajwadi Party (SP) and a new electoral equation emerged in the country's politics, the Muslim-Yadav equation (M+Y). This alliance put Mulayam on the throne many times and Mulayam also kept rewarding the Muslim society. It was under his rule that mafias like Mukhtar Ansari, and Atiq Ahmed flourished in Uttar Pradesh, on whom even the police were reluctant to take action because the administration had given full protection to a particular community in the greed of the vote bank. This legacy of Mulayam was also handled by the son Akhilesh with the same ideology, and while being CM, Akhilesh even offered to withdraw the cases against the terrorists, however, at that time the Allahabad High Court stopped Akhilesh. Otherwise, the 19 criminals arrested for the November 23, 2007, serial blasts in the Kachharis of Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad would have come out of jail after taking advantage of SP's vote bank politics.   

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