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Before entering politics, Mulayam used to fight wrestling. Once his mentor and former Rajya Sabha MP Uday Pratap had told that Mulayam used to leave exams and go to fight wrestling. In 1960, when Mulayam was studying in college, on the stage of Kavi Sammelan, a young man struck the inspector. The name of this youth was Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The same Mulayam who later remained famous in Indian politics for 55 years to impress the opponents with his gimmicks. Later, many controversies were also associated with Mulayam, who did politics with the help of socialism, but like a soft stone, he kept hitting every storm. We Telling about 5 interesting stories related to his life.
1. The poet was bullied by the inspector, then Mulayam slammed him on the stage
26 June 1960. Jain Inter College of Karhal, Mainpuri. Kavi Sammelan was going on in the campus. The famous poet of that time, Damodar Swaroop rebel was also present here. He reached the stage and started reading his poem ‘Delhi Ki Gaddi Savdhaan’. The poem was against the government. That’s why the UP Police Inspector posted there went on the stage and stopped him from reading the poem. If he did not agree, his mic was snatched away.
Mulayam Singh Yadav came into politics after studying post graduation in Political Science.
Inspector scolded the poet and said that you cannot read poetry against the government. While there was a debate on the stage, the 21-year-old wrestler sitting among the audience reached the stage running. In 10 seconds, the young man picked up the inspector and slammed him on the stage. This young man was none other than Mulayam Singh Yadav.
2. When Mulayam told the workers – shout Netaji is dead
Date 4 March 1984, day Sunday. Netaji had rallies in Etawah and Mainpuri. After the rally, he went to Mainpuri to meet a friend. After meeting the friend, he had walked only 1 kilometer when his car started firing. The shooters Chhotelal and Netrapal jumped in front of Netaji’s car.
On March 8, 1984, the news of a murderous attack on Mulayam was published in the Jansatta newspaper.
Firing continued between Chhotelal, Netrapal and the policemen for about half an hour. Chhotelal used to walk with Netaji, so he knew where he was sitting in the car. This is the reason that both of them fired 9 bullets on the part of the car where Netaji used to sit. But the continuous firing diverted the driver’s attention and his car disassembled and fell into a dry drain. Netaji immediately understood that there was a conspiracy to kill him. He immediately made a plan to save everyone’s life.
After this incident, Mulayam Singh Yadav was made the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council. Chaudhary Charan Singh also made him the leader of Lok Dal.
He asked his supporters to shout loudly ‘Netaji is dead. They got shot. Netaji is no more. When all the supporters of Netaji started shouting this, the attackers thought that Netaji was really dead. Thinking them to be dead, the attackers stopped firing and started running away. But Chhotelal died at the same place due to the bullets of the police and Netrapal was badly injured. After this, the security personnel took Netaji in a jeep to Kurra police station, 5 km away.
3. Called the police officers – shoot the kar sevaks
In 1989, Mulayam Singh Yadav from Lok Dal became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. By the beginning of the 90s, the battle of Mandal-Kamandal started across the country. In such a situation, in 1990, activists of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal performed karseva for the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
On 30 October 1990, the crowd of kar sevaks became uncontrollable. The kar sevaks were moving towards the mosque by breaking the police barricading. Taking a tough decision, Mulayam Singh Yadav ordered the administration to shoot.
This picture is of Babri Masjid demolition. Kar Sevaks were fired for the first time on 30 October 1990.
Six kar sevaks were killed by police bullets. Two days later, on November 2, 1990, thousands of kar sevaks reached near Hanuman Garhi, on the orders of Mulayam, the police had to open fire once again, in which about a dozen kar sevaks were killed.
The decision to fire on kar sevaks made Mulayam anti-Hindu. Opponents made him ‘Mulla Mulayam’. However, later later Mulayam had said that this decision was difficult. But, Mulayam also got political mileage out of it.
Mulayam held a meeting in Lucknow after firing. He said that he is ready to sacrifice to save the unity of the country.
After the kar sevaks reached close to the disputed structure, Mulayam instructed the security forces to open fire. In this action of the security forces, 16 kar sevaks were killed, while hundreds were injured. Later, Mulayam told that 28 people were killed in the action of the security forces.
4. Implemented Lohia’s plan, defeated BJP by bringing Kanshi Ram along
In 1956 Ram Manohar Lohia and Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar were planning to come together under the agreement. However, in the meantime, Ambedkar died and Lohia’s planning of the Dalit-Backward joint could not be successful. After the demolition of Babri in 1992, Mulayam started working towards implementing this plan of Lohia.
After the agreement between Mulayam-Kanshi Ram, SP became the single largest party in the elections. SP got 109 seats in the election, while BSP won 67 seats.
Mulayam announced an alliance with the then big Dalit leader Kanshi Ram. The effect of this master stroke of Mulayam was also visible on the election results. The SP-BSP alliance got 176 seats in the 422-seat assembly, while the BJP fell short of a majority. Mulayam returned to power by joining other smaller parties. After Mulayam came to power, a slogan ‘Mile Mulayam-Kanshi Ram, Hawa mein ud gaye Jai Shri Ram’ became very popular in UP.
5. When Kalyan Singh, accused of demolishing Babri, was supported in the elections
The year was 2009. Mulayam held a public meeting in support of Kalyan Singh, who left BJP and contested as an independent from Etah. Kalyan was the Chief Minister at the time of the demolition of the Babri Masjid and had also served a sentence for contempt.
Mulayam Singh had called the biggest mistake of supporting Kalyan. On the death of Kalyan Singh, Mulayam did not even attend his funeral.
The decision to extend support to Kalyan Singh led to a revolt within the party. Senior leader Azam Khan took a dig at Mulayam. In the election too, Mulayam had to bear the loss. However, Kalyan Singh won the election with Mulayam’s support.