Akhilesh, senior SP leaders pay tribute to Mulayam Singh Yadav on third death anniversary
Etawah/ Lucknow (PTI): Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and several senior party leaders on Friday paid floral tribute to party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav at his native village, Saifai, on his third death anniversary.
Prominent party leaders, including Shivpal Yadav, Rajya Sabha MPs Ram Gopal Yadav and Ramji Lal Suman, and several others attended the memorial event.
The Congress party also paid tributes to the late leader.
Speaking to reporters on the occasion, Akhilesh Yadav said that the site would soon house a memorial dedicated to "Netaji" (Mulayam Singh Yadav).
"This will be a memorial for all socialists and it will continue to inspire generations. Through the memorial, Netaji will live on in our lives in the form of his ideas," Akhilesh said.
Earlier, Rajya Sabha MP Ramji Lal Suman told PTI Videos that Mulayam Singh Yadav held a significant place in India's socialist movement.
"I do not see it as an achievement that he became defence minister or chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. When all socialist factions merged into the Janata Party in 1977, the socialist movement practically ended in India. But in 1992, Mulayam Singh Yadav united socialists across the country to form the Samajwadi Party," he said.
Suman added that as long as "helplessness, unemployment, and inequality" exist in the world, socialist ideology will remain relevant.
"Whether history writes four pages or four lines about him, he will forever be remembered in India's socialist movement," he said.
Senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP Ram Gopal Yadav, who is also Mulayam Singh Yadav's brother, said that his support base extended far beyond his party.
"Throughout his life, Netaji never turned away anyone who sought his help, even from other parties. I am a witness to it that whenever he was chief minister, he clearly instructed his secretary that if anyone, whether from the BJP, Congress or BSP, came for genuine work or those concerned to their relatives, they should be helped without delay," he recalled.
"He fought for the poor and gave respect to the deprived sections of the society. Those who didn't know the way to Delhi, he made them Members of Parliament; those unfamiliar with Lucknow, he made them MLAs," Ram Gopal Yadav said, adding that Mulayam Singh gave the marginalised "the dignity to walk with their heads held high."
While the main ceremony was held at Netaji's memorial in Saifai, Samajwadi Party workers and leaders across the districts remembered the late leader with reverence.
At the party's state headquarters in Lucknow, national secretary and former Cabinet minister Rajendra Chaudhary paid homage to Mulayam Singh by garlanding his portrait. Several senior leaders were also present.
Meanwhile, a statement from the Congress' state headquarters said that Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee president Ajay Rai paid tribute to "the pioneer of socialist ideology, former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, on his death anniversary"
On the occasion, Ajay Rai said that Mulayam Singh Yadav was a grassroots leader who raised the voice of the poor, farmers, labourers, and backward classes. His political life was inspired by the spirit of social justice and equality, Rai said.
Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939-2022), founder of the Samajwadi Party, was a three-time Uttar Pradesh chief minister and former defence minister of India.
A veteran socialist leader inspired by Ram Manohar Lohia, he was known for his deep grassroots connect and backward class mobilisation.
Over his five-decade political career, Yadav served multiple terms as both MLA and MP. He passed away on October 10, 2022, at the age of 82. His last rites were done at his native village, Saifai.
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Mohsin's fifer helps LSG restrict KKR to 155/7 despite Rinku's 83
Lucknow (PTI): Lucknow Super Giants pacer Mohsin Khan added another sordid chapter to Kolkata Knight Riders' batting woes, taking five wickets to restrict the three-time champions to a modest 155 for seven in their IPL match here on Sunday.
Mohsin’s 5 for 23, a personal best for the left-arm pacer in this format, tore apart an already struggling KKR batting unit, as he snaffled the cream wickets of Ajinkya Rahane, Tim Seifert, Cameron Green, Rovman Powell and Anukul Roy.
Rinku Singh (83 not out, 51 balls) made a well-paced fifty and punished Mohammed Shami in the 19th over for 6, 4, 4 and the smoked four sixes in a row against spinner Digvesh Rathi as KKR made 43 runs in the last two overs to go past the 150-run mark.
But his fifty remained a lone act, as Mohsin firmly stood in the limelight.
His bowling ethos were rooted in simple tactics — bang the ball into the black soil pitch to gain bounce or use cutters at various pace to keep the batters guessing.
Mohsin, who started the night with a wicket maiden, showed his variety across two dismissals.
He followed Rahane with a fuller ball as the batter tried to go over the covers, but the ball’s trajectory forced the KKR skipper to just slice the ball up for a simple catch for Aiden Markram.
The 27-year-old stayed calm when Green, who looked comfortable out there while smashing George Linde for two successive sixes, slammed him for a huge maximum.
Two balls later, Mohsin dug one short, challenging Green (34) to go for the pull and the Australian all-rounder took the bait.
The into-the-body angle worked again as Green could only sky the ball to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.
Green’s ouster also ended a fifth wicket alliance worth 42 with Rinku Singh.
Bizarre dismissal of Raghuvanshi
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If the existing turmoil was not enough, KKR had to bear the dejection of seeing Angkrish Raghuvanshi getting dismissed obstructing the field.
On the final ball of the fifth over from Prince Yadav, Raghuvanshi nudged one towards mid-on and set off for a single, only to be rejected by Green.
Raghuvanshi put in a dive to save himself but he came in the line of the throw from Shami.
Subsequently, third umpire Rohit Pandit accepted LSG’s appeal and decided that the batter’s turning radius was more than required, eventually resulting in the batter’s dismissal in a rare manner.
