Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav along with his wife and son rushed to Gurugram as party patriarch and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav has been shifted to the ICU ward of Gurugram's Medanta Hospital after deterioration of his health condition.
The 82-year-old veteran was earlier admitted to the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram after a serious health condition and his medical status is said to be critical at present.
Mulayam’s brother and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) chief Shivpal Singh Yadav is also in Gurugram to meet his ailing brother. Abhay Ram Yadav, younger brother of Mulayam Singh Yadav and other family members in Saifai and Etawah have also rushed to Gurugram.
This is the second time when Mulayam Singh Yadav has been hospitalised at Gurugram's Medanta Hospital in the past three months. In July, he was admitted to the hospital following a routine check-up, reports had said.
Mulayam Singh Yadav is currently a serving Member of Parliament from Mainpuri constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He has served as the UP’s chief minister thrice -- 1989-1991, 1993-1995 and 2003-2007. He also held the post of Union defence minister from 1996 to 1998.
Recently, Akhilesh Yadav was elected as SP president for the third term. Yadav Junior (49), who in his fresh term will lead the party in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and the 2027 Uttar Pradesh elections, has said that his father and SP founder always wanted SP to become a national party.
“We struggled for it and tried a lot. On this day, when you are giving me another term of five years, we should all take a pledge that the next time we meet the SP becomes a national party," Akhilesh said at the party's national convention.