Political leaders pay tribute to Mulayam Singh Yadav on his birth anniversary

PTI Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and political leaders cutting across party lines paid tribute to Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav on his birth anniversary on Friday. Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav paid tributes to his father Mulayam Singh Yadav on his birth anniversary and said, "Netaji's (Mulayam Singh Yadav) birth anniversary is an oath day (Shapath Diwas) for all of us to reiterate our resolve towards 'socialist values'." "On Netaji's birth anniversary, we all salute him with all our heart! Netaji's birth anniversary is the 'oath day' for all of us to reiterate our resolve towards 'socialist values'," he said in a post on 'X'.

In the same post, Yadav said, "The social consciousness and awareness that has come among the people today, its ground was prepared by Netaji and the dedicated people with him." "Today it is the responsibility of all of us to give an even more positive environment to the theoretical seeds sown by him and the ideological plants planted by him so that the path of equality, harmony and growth of all can be paved and the direction of development, eradicating all discrimination, can turn from the last person of the country to the first person," he added.

Yadav said "Netaji explained and taught us all that the true direction of true democracy is from bottom to top". "Only when the last person in the line will be emowered, the society and country will be empowered”, the Samajwadi Party said on X.