Gurgaon: Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Founder of Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav (82) has died on Monday morning Gurgaon hospital. Mulayam Singh passed away in Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon due to prolonged illness on Monday morning.

According to the hospital sources, Mulayam Singh had been suffering from acute kidney malfunction leading to an imbalance in the creatinine levels in his body. In such a condition, after keeping him on dialysis for some time, the doctors shifted the veteran leader to Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) support and life-saving drugs.

Mulayam Singh was born on November 22^nd, 1939. He first became an MLA in 1967. During his second term as MLA, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency and Mulayam Singh, like many opposition leaders, went to jail. Mulayam Singh was elected 10 times as an MLA and seven times as Lok Sabha MP.

In his long career, he was affiliated to a series of parties  his mentor Ram Manohar Lohia’s Sanyukt Socialist Party, Charan Singh’s Bharatiya Kranti Dal, Bharatiya Lok Dal and Samajwadi Janata Party. He founded the Samajwadi Party in 1992. In 1996, when opposition parties tried to form a non-BJP alternative to the Congress, Mulayam Singh was briefly among the candidates for PM.

Modi in a tweet and paid tribute to the demised leader and said that Mulayam Singh Yadav’s death pains me; he was a remarkable personality and was widely admired as a humble and grounded leader. He was a remarkable personality, widely admired as a humble and grounded leader, he said. UP Chief Minister Yogi Aditanath said he felt deep sorrow and announced three-day State mourning in the State.