UP House to release book on Mulayam Singh Yadav

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav may be cutting a lonely figure in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, but he will soon have the spotlight on him when the state Assembly releases a book on his life and times later in February.

The book will be released by Uttar Pradesh Assembly Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey and is titled Mulayam Singh Yadav 1967-2007.

According to Pradeep Dubey, principal secretary of the UP Assembly, “The book on Mulayam Singh Yadav is a highly researched and academic work, on the lines of Parliament and House of Commons where life and times of political stalwarts are researched and recorded by the House for educating the future generation.”

The book focuses on Mulayam Singh Yadav’s views and his crusade on varied subjects, including secularism, rural development, agriculture and farmers.

It also includes little-known aspects of the former chief minister who belonged to a farmer’s family and contested his first Assembly election in 1967. Since then, he has never looked back and had reached the pinnacle of his political career which includes posts of UP CM and defence minister in the United Front government.