Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and other socialist leaders have expressed grief at the death of Ram Manohar lohia's personal secretary, Kamlesh, who died in New Delhi on Friday night.
Kamlesh, who died at the age of 79, was a great socialist leader and writer. Expressing his condolences to the bereaved family, Yadav Senior in his message said that Kamlesh was a true socialist and also a great poet and was jailed during the Emergency along with former Union Minister George Fernandis in Baroda Dynamite case.
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav also mourned the death of Kamlesh.
Remembering Kamlesh for his role in the socialist movement, particularly during the Emergency period, Uttar Pradesh Congress media committee chairman Satyadeo Tripathi, who himself is a great follower of Dr Ram Manohar lohia, said that Kamlesh never thought about his personal or political interests and always worked for the welfare of others and for maintaining secular and democratic values.
Tripathi left for New Delhi to attend the funeral of Kamlesh on Sunday morning.
"People will remember Kamleshji as a great writer and poet," said former Union minister Beni Prasad Verma while expressing his condolences and praying for the peace to the departed soul.