Mulayam Singh Yadav

Mulayam Singh Yadav born on November 22, 1939, Saifai, Etawah district, India,  an Indian politician and government official who founded and was the longtime leader of the Samajwadi (Socialist) Party (SP) of India.

He served three times as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state (1989–1991, 1993–1995, and 2003–2007).

Yadav was raised in a poor farming family near Etawah, in what is now west-central Uttar Pradesh, one of six children. He initially wanted to become a wrestler, but he went to college and completed a master’s degree in political science from Agra University.

He became involved in politics at the age of 15, when he encountered the writing of the Indian socialist Ram Manohar Lohia. Lohia’s convictions on the equality of peoples and other social-justice issues strongly influenced Yadav’s own ideas about standing up for the rights of lower-caste Hindus and the minority Muslim population.

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