Mumbai A senior Congress leader from Maharashtra on Monday demanded that the Center should give Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, to former Defense Minister and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister late Mulayam Singh Yadav. Ratna) should be given. State Congress working president M. Arif Naseem Khan wrote a letter to President Draupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mulayam Singh (who died on October 10 at the age of 83). had been requested) to be respected.
Khan said that despite being born in a backward family in Saifai, a small village in Uttar Pradesh, Yadav remained at the center of national politics for more than six decades. He worked for all sections of the society in his long public life. Khan said, he was elected MLA 8 times, he served 7 times as MP, thrice as CM of UP and once as Defense Minister of the country. His entire life was marked with the struggle to get justice for the poor, downtrodden, minorities of the society and uphold the secular traditions of the Indian Constitution. He said Yadav’s death earlier this month caused a wave of mourning across the country, especially among socialists and secularists, and the government should recognize his contribution by conferring Bharat Ratna on him posthumously. (IANS)