Lucknow/ Gurugram, Oct 10: Veteran Samajwadi leader, Mulayam Singh Yadav, died here on Monday after a prolonged illness.
His son and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav tweeted about his demise.
Yadav was under treatment at Gurugram’s Medanta hospital since last week. He was on life saving drugs, and was being treated in the ICU of the hospital.
According to hospital sources, he breathed his last at 8.15 a.m. on Monday.
The 82-year-old Samajwadi Party patriarch was facing difficulty in breathing and was under the supervision of an internal medicine expert at the Medanta Hospital, as per sources. Singh was suffering from a urinary infection as well, hospital sources had said.
On Sunday, Medanta Hospital had put out a health bulletin stating that the veteran leader’s condition was quite critical and that he was on life-saving drugs.