The minister for Panchayatiraj Kailash Singh Yadav died at a private hospital in Haryana after a prolonged illness on Tuesday. He was 65. The minister had suffered brain hemorrhage on Sunday and was shifted to Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon by air ambulance. He died on Tuesday afternoon.
The minister is survived by his son, who was recently elected as the district panchayat chairman of Ghazipur, and five daughters. Kailash Singh Yadav had represented Jangipur assembly constituency in Ghazipur for three times in the state assembly in 1996, 2002 and 2012 on Samajwadi Party ticket. He began his stint in public life from the grass root level. He was elected as village Prdhan in 1985 and held this post for 10 years. He had also won the election of block development committee and member district panchyat and was also the chairman of Primary agriculture cooperative society in Ghazipur.
Cremation would be held at the native village of the leader in Ghazipur on Wednesday where several senior SP leaders including Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav would be present. Chief Minister, Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav, UP assembly Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey and several others expressed condolence on the sudden demise of the leader.
Meanwhile the proceedings of the state assembly were adjourned till February 11 following the death of Minister Kailash Singh Yadav. The parliamentary affairs minister Azam Khan informed the state assembly about the death of the minister when the house had initiated debate on motion of thanks to the joint address by the Governor’.
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who was not in the house since morning, rushed and read out the condolence message. CM terming Kailash Singh Yadav as a leader, who worked for the people, said that his wish was fulfilled when his son was elected chairman of the Ghazipur district panchayat chairman recently.
“The SP leader and the minister also worked hard for peaceful elections of the panchayat in the state,” the CM claimed. After CM, leader of the opposition and BSP member Swami Prasad Maurya, BJP legislature party leader Suresh Kumar Khanna, Congress legislature party leader Pradeep Mathur and RlD leader Dalbir Singh also expressed their condolence to the departed soul.
later the parliamentary affairs minister Khan initiated a proposal for adjournment of the house till February 11 as several leaders are likely to attend the funeral of the departed leader at Ghazipur on Wednesday. The house later adopted a resolution to adjourn the house till Wednesday and meet again on Thursday morning at 11 am. On February 11, the government will seek the second supplementary grants for the current fiscal 2015-16. The supplementary grants would be passed the same day as on February 12, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who is also holds the finance portfolio will present the budget for next fiscal 2016-17. This will be the last budget of his five year tenure and fifth consecutive budget to be presented in the assembly.