Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav's office on Monday said the last rites of Mulayam Singh Yadav will be held at Saifai, his ancestral village in Uttar Pradesh. Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of the state has said that last rites of the veteran politician will be held with full state honours.
Mulayam Singh Yadav died at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram at 8:16 am on Monday morning due to multiple organ failure, according to people familiar with the matter. Yadav is one of the most prominent leaders of Uttar Pradesh. He has served as the chief minister of the state thrice and has also served in the Union government as the minister of defence. He has been elected 10 times as MLA and 7 times as Lok Sabha MP.