Mulayam Singh Yadav was cremated in UP’s Saifai today amid a sea of supporters who gathered to pay their last respect to the Samajwadi Party (SP) founder, with the cloudy sky and intermittent morning drizzle adding to the sombreness. Thousands gathered in Uttar Pradesh’s Saifai to pay tributes to the three-time Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav. His supporters chanted “Netaji amar rahein [Long live Netaji]” as a vehicle carrying the mortal remains of Mulayam Singh Yadav waded through the crowd for his last rites in Saifai.
Mulayam Singh Yadav passed on at the age of 82 at a private hospital in Gurugram on Monday, 10 October. His mortal remains were brought to Saifai on Monday evening and kept at his ‘kothi’ where people poured in to pay their last respects to “Netaji”, as Mulayam Singh Yadav was fondly called.
With hundreds queued up for the final darshan amid the drizzle, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s body was moved around 10 am on 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.
Onboard the truck decked up with garlands of flowers were his son Akhilesh Yadav, brother Shivpal Yadav and other family members. A huge crowd of people marched along as the vehicle moved slowly on the concrete road of the village. As the hour came closer for Mulayam Singh Yadav’s last ride among the mortals, people from all walks of life came out of their houses in their whites, some on rooftops, some climbing the trees along the route and some attempting to just touch the vehicle that carried their beloved leader.
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