Sharad Yadav: Tributes for India socialist leader who died at 75
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Sharad Yadav, one of India’s most prominent socialist leaders, has passed away at the age of 75. Indian politicians are paying tribute to him.
The former federal minister passed away on Thursday night in a Delhi hospital after a long period of ill health.
His more than fifty-year political career has experienced numerous ups and downs lately. But he remained friendly with political figures from all sides of the aisle to the very end.
Yadav joined the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) after last year’s merger of his own party, the Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD), with the bigger political group.
Lalu Prasad Yadav, head of the RJD, who was once a friend but later turned into a rival and then an ally, claimed on Thursday night that their disagreements had never resulted in animosity.
Prime Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party member Narendra Modi expressed his “sorrow” over the news on Twitter.
The Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited Yadav’s family members in Delhi to express his condolences.
Before opting to pursue a career in politics, Yadav, who was born in the state of Madhya Pradesh in 1947, attended engineering school.
He belonged to a group of politicians who were influenced by the towering socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia and started out in politics by taking part in demonstrations against the government of the time’s prime minister, Indira Gandhi.
In his first election, which he won with a huge majority in 1974, Yadav defeated the then-dominant Congress party.
A federal government commission’s proposals to include Other Backward Classes—a broad category of lower and intermediate castes in India—in affirmative action programmes were carried out in large part thanks to his assistance in the late 1980s.
VP Singh and Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s federal administrations both had him as a minister.
He joined the Janata Dal (United) in 2003 and served as one of its founding members. After 15 eventful years, he left the party in 2018. He then founded the LJD, which had no political repercussions.
On Thursday night, his daughter announced his departure to the world on Twitter with the three Hindi words “Papa Nahi Rahe” (Father is no more).
Sharad Yadav, one of India’s most prominent socialist leaders, has passed away at the age of 75. Indian politicians are paying tribute to him.
The former federal minister passed away on Thursday night in a Delhi hospital after a long period of ill health.
His more than fifty-year political career has experienced numerous ups and downs lately. But he remained friendly with political figures from all sides of the aisle to the very end.
Yadav joined the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) after last year’s merger of his own party, the Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD), with the bigger political group.
Lalu Prasad Yadav, head of the RJD, who was once a friend but later turned into a rival and then an ally, claimed on Thursday night that their disagreements had never resulted in animosity.
Prime Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party member Narendra Modi expressed his “sorrow” over the news on Twitter.
The Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited Yadav’s family members in Delhi to express his condolences.
Before opting to pursue a career in politics, Yadav, who was born in the state of Madhya Pradesh in 1947, attended engineering school.
He belonged to a group of politicians who were influenced by the towering socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia and started out in politics by taking part in demonstrations against the government of the time’s prime minister, Indira Gandhi.
In his first election, which he won with a huge majority in 1974, Yadav defeated the then-dominant Congress party.
A federal government commission’s proposals to include Other Backward Classes—a broad category of lower and intermediate castes in India—in affirmative action programmes were carried out in large part thanks to his assistance in the late 1980s.
VP Singh and Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s federal administrations both had him as a minister.
He joined the Janata Dal (United) in 2003 and served as one of its founding members. After 15 eventful years, he left the party in 2018. He then founded the LJD, which had no political repercussions.
On Thursday night, his daughter announced his departure to the world on Twitter with the three Hindi words “Papa Nahi Rahe” (Father is no more).
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