{"id":339889,"date":"2022-10-10T00:07:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=339889"},"modified":"2022-10-10T00:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:37:06","slug":"samajwadi-party-founder-mulayam-singh-yadav-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/samajwadi-party-founder-mulayam-singh-yadav-dies-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav died on Monday at a hospital in Gurugram after prolonged illness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mere adarniya pitaji aur sabke netaji nahi rahe &#8211; Akhilesh Yadav,&#8221; the SP tweeted from its Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old was admitted to a hospital since August and was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Gurugram-based Medanta Hospital on October 2.<\/p>\n<p>Condoling his death, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Yadav was a remarkable personality and was widely admired as a grounded leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mulayam Singh Yadav served people diligently and devoted his life towards popularising ideals of Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia,&#8221; he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Yadav distinguished himself in Uttar Pradesh and national politics and was a key soldier for democracy during Emergency, he said.<\/p>\n<p>As defence minister, Yadav worked for a stronger India and his Parliamentary interventions were insightful, Modi added.<\/p>\n<p>Yadav served as defence minister and as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh thrice.<\/p>\n<p>Born on November 22, 1939 into a farming family in Saifai near Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, Yadav spawned the state&#8217;s most prominent political clan.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected an MLA 10 times and an MP, mostly from Mainpuri and Azamgarh, seven times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav died on Monday at a hospital in Gurugram after prolonged illness. &#8220;Mere adarniya pitaji aur sabke netaji nahi rahe &#8211; Akhilesh Yadav,&#8221; the SP tweeted from its Twitter handle. The 82-year-old was admitted to a hospital since August and was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Gurugram-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":339890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339891,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339889\/revisions\/339891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/339890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}