At any given time, there were about a dozen family members in politics in Uttar Pradesh. Mulayam Singh Yadav was one of the few politicians who blatantly promoted nepotism and had no qualms about it. However, he later resigned from the Lok Sabha and continued as chief minister till 2007 when the SP lost to the BSP in the state elections. Yadav contested the 2004 Lok Sabha elections from Mainpuri while he was still Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was sworn in as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the third time in September 2003. In 1995, the SP-BSP alliance broke with the infamous State Guest House incident but Mulayam Singh Yadav made sure that his party bounced back to power in 2003. The firing on Ayodhya activists and then Uttarakhand activists at Muzaffarnagar on Octoremained black spots of his regime. Mulayam's stand on the movement for demanding separate statehood for Uttarakhand was as much controversial as his stand on Ayodhya movement in 1990 was. The alliance between the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party prevented the return of the BJP to power in the state and Yadav became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh with the support of Congress and Janata Dal. In 1992, Yadav founded his own Samajwadi Party and then allied with the Bahujan Samaj Party for the elections to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, held in November 1993. His government fell when the Congress withdrew support in April 1991 and Mulayam Singh lost to the BJP in the midterm elections. Singh national government in November 1990, Yadav joined Chandra Shekhar's Janata Dal (Socialist) party and continued in office as the chief minister with the support of the Congress.
Mulayam Singh Yadav first became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1989.īeing a shrewd politician, he had the uncanny knack of sensing the upheavals in politics.Īfter the collapse of the V.P. When the Lok Dal party split, Yadav launched the Krantikari Morcha party.
In 1982, he was elected leader of the opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council and held that post until 1985. Later, in 1980, he became the president of the Lok Dal in Uttar Pradesh which later became a part of the Janata Dal. He first became a state minister in 1977. In 1975, during Indira Gandhi's imposition of the Emergency, Yadav was arrested and kept in custody for 19 months. Groomed by the likes of Ram Manohar Lohia and Raj Narain, Yadav served eight terms as the member of the state Assembly. Mulayam Singh had first contested the Assembly election from Karhal in 1967 on Ram Manohar Lohia's Samyukta Socialist Party ticket.
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