The Rise and Fall of the Samajwadi Party: The Role of Mulayam Singh and His Family
Popular in the 1990s, the Samajwadi Party (SP) is linked to the person of Mulayam Singh Yadav and at one time ruled Uttar Pradesh. This paper unveils the rise of Samajwadi Party as a socialist party speaking for the loafer section and its growth, wish, and struggle with a simultaneous glance at its intra-party turbulence. Being led by Mulayam Singh Yadav and later with his family members assuming important positions in the party; there has not been a lack of different challenges that have posed tests to the organizational unity and ideology within the party. The journey of Samajwadi Party reflects the politico-dynamics that characterize regional politics of India alone.” Early Beginnings: Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Rise Netaji Mulayam Singh Yadav was the founder of the Samajwadi party and he made all the efforts to develop the party. Yadav found himself as a politician from the 1960s, he was born in a small family of UP, initially he was socialist with influence of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia....