Mulayam Singh Yadav cremated with full state honours at UP's Saifai

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav was cremated with full state honours at his native Saifai village in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday afternoon. His son and party chief Akhilesh Yadav lit the funeral pyre. 

The former Uttar Pradesh CM had died aged 82 at a private hospital in Haryana's Gurugram on Monday. His body was brought to Saifai on Monday evening. A large number of people and dignitaries turned up for his funeral in Saifai on Tuesday.

With hundreds queued up for the final darshan amid the drizzle, Yadav's body was moved around 10 am Tuesday from his



“kothi” to a bigger hall on the Mela Ground premises to allow people to pay their last respects.

The former chief minister's son Akhilesh Yadav, brother Shivpal Yadav and other family members were onboard a truck decked up with garlands of flowers. A large number of people marched along the vehicle.

Frequent chants of "Netaji amar rahe" by lakhs of people rent the air.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar were among those who paid tributes to the leader.