Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and Member of Legislative Council Mulayam Singh Yadav passed away at around 9 pm on Saturday, on October 3, 2020. The veteran politician, Mulayam (92) breathed his last at his native village in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya district.
Amid this, photographs of SP founder and former CM Mulayam Singh Yadav are being circulated on social media to announce the death of another SP leader and MLC, with the same name.
समाजवादी पार्टी के वरिष्ठ नेता मुलायम सिंह यादव का निधन,पर पार्टी में शोक की लहर दौड़ी https://t.co/SMMcngUJUa
— Aftab warshi journalist (@aftabwarshi2) October 5, 2020
Mulayam Singh Yadav is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh and the founder-patron of the Samajwadi Party was dies age of 92 in auraiya . It’s a shocking news for uttar Pradesh and also for India Rest in peace pic.twitter.com/XatyOaz3sa
— Saurabh Pandey (@Saurabhburnt09) October 6, 2020
In fact, the claim was also updated on the Hindi version of Wikipedia. This has now been taken down.
Below is a screenshot of the translated version of the Hindi version of the Wikipedia page:
Claim:
Former UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav is dead.
Fact Check:
The claim is false.
Deceased Mulayam Singh shared his name with Samajwadi Party founder-patron Mulayam Singh Yadav, which led to the confusion on social media.
The official Twitter account of the Samajwadi Party had posted the photograph of the deceased politician, Mulayam Singh Yadav and wrote ‘The demise of Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, senior socialist leader and former MLC of Auraiya. Condolences to the bereaved family (Translated from Hindi)’.
अत्यंत दुःखद! औरया के वरिष्ठ समाजवादी नेता एवं पूर्व MLC श्री मुलायम सिंह यादव जी का निधन। शोक संतप्त परिजनों के प्रति संवेदना। ईश्वर दिवंगत आत्मा को शांति एवं परिजनों को संबल प्रदान करें। भावभीनी श्रद्धांजलि! pic.twitter.com/NConEYxzQ8
— Samajwadi Party (@samajwadiparty) October 5, 2020
Further, in a tweet, a daughter-in-law of the former Chief minister, Aparna Bisht Yadav, rubbished the rumours and stated that the SP patron, Netaji, Mulayam Singh Yadav is alive and healthy.
‘By the grace of God, our beloved father, our Netaji, Mulayam Singh Yadavji is healthy,’ she wrote.
#MulayamSingh yadavji परमेश्वर की कृपा से पिताजी यानी आपके हमारे प्यारे नेताजी स्वस्थ है।
— Aparna Bisht Yadav (@aparnabisht7) October 5, 2020
Further, a spokesperson of the Samajwadi Party rubbished the viral claims and stated that the deceased was a namesake.
‘An MLC from Auraiya had died who shared his name with the former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, netaji is healthy and alive,’ BOOMLive quoted Anurag Bhadauriya, an official spokesperson of the party, as saying.
Further, Akhilesh Yadav, son of former UP CM, also tweeted an image of the late MLC and called him a close aide of ‘Netaji’.
नेता जी के पुराने साथी और उनके ही नामरूप श्री मुलायम सिंह यादव जी के निधन पर भावभीनी श्रद्धांजलि! pic.twitter.com/oLkC2HVpbu
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) October 5, 2020
Below is a photograph showing both the leaders together. The late politician can be seen on the left and the SP Patron is on his right.
सोशल मीडिया सुबह से एक फर्जी खबर चला रही नेता जी के बारे में जबकि नेता के खास औरैया पूर्व एमएलसी मुलायम सिंह यादव जी का निधन शनिवार को हुआ था । नेता जी स्वास्थ हैं ।। pic.twitter.com/KmtCNnVDN0
— Aankit Dwivedii (@AnkitDw53254448) October 5, 2020
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