Mulayam Singh Yadav

Mulayam Singh Yadav (2012)

Mulayam Singh Yadav (22 November 1939 – 10 October 2022) was an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh and the founder of the Samajwadi Party. He served for three non-consecutive terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1989 to 1991, 1993 to 1995, and 2003 to 2007 respectively and also served as the Minister of Defence of India from 1996 to 1998 in the United Front government. He also served as the Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Azamgarh.

Quotes

• Boys will be boys. Boys commit mistakes.
  • Comments in opposition to a change in law against rape. The Guardian Burke, Jason (31 May 2014)

• First girls develop friendship with boys. They when differences occur, they level rape charges. Boys commit mistakes. Will they be hanged for rape.
  • Indian Express, 2014 Mulayam’s shocker: Boys will be boys, they make mistakes… Will you hang them for rape?

• Not even a bird shall be able to enter Ayodhya. ... We will crush them.
  • Comments against the planned demonstrations by kar sevaks (activists) in Ayodhya. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.

• I regret giving orders to shoot kar sevaks at Ayodhya. My decision to order firing at kar sevaks was to save Muslim minorities. This decision was needed to keep the faith of Muslims in this country intact.”
  • Mulayam Singh Yadav quoted from ‘Mulayam Singh govt buried Karsevaks, conspired to hide actual number of casualties’: Republic TV exposé

About Mulayam Singh Yadav

• Meanwhile in Uttar Pradesh, chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav was playing it rough. He pre-emptively arrested all leaders of organizations involved in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. In order to prevent Kar Sevaks from going to Ayodhya, he suspended all public transport in the state, blocked roads, and imposed curfew in a number of cities. House-to-house searches for hiding Kar Sevaks were carried out, the borders were sealed, and massive numbers of Hindus (as well as a number of Muslim Kar Sevaks) were jailed. The numbers cited vary between one and eight lakhs, which is a lot more than during the Emergency or the Quit India movement in the whole country. On October 30, when according to Mulayam's boast, no bird would be able to fly into Ayodhya, thousands of Kar Sevaks broke through the police defenses thanks to their sheer numbers... Gradually, the police forces regained control and drove the Kar Sevaks out, arresting many, and killing about 10, others cite figures from 5 to 50.... On November 2, the Kar Sevaks came back. As they were sitting or standing in the narrow lanes near the Janmabhoomi site (secularists say they were slowly moving towards it), the police opened fire... The death toll is a matter of dispute, as many of the bodies have been carried off in Army vans, and unceremoniously disposed of in an unknown place... The BJP appealed to the president to depose Mulayam, and cited the figure of 168 people killed. Some days after, the VHP claimed it could substantiate a death toll of about 400, or as many as were killed by general Dyer at Jallianwala Bagh.
  • Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.

• What makes someone like you support people like Mulayam and Lalu Prasad?
  I can’t go around telling people what to do about Mulayam and Lalu. There are senior Congress leaders involved in this, and they take the decisions. It is not just the issue of support; there are lots of other things. These are tricky questions, and a lot of people ask me about this. But it doesn’t work that way, that one fine day we decide we don’t want to go along with them and that’s it. It is a complex issue, and I don’t want to go into it right now. Let’s get back to development.
  • Rahul Gandhi, Interview in 2005, Tehelka. [1] [2]

• They defend rapists. Mamata di says ‘sometimes boys become naughty.’ Mulayam ji says ‘sometimes boys make mistakes’.
  • Taslima Nasreen (@taslimanasreen) April 10, 2014 [3], quoted from Indian Express, 2014 Mulayam’s shocker: Boys will be boys, they make mistakes… Will you hang them for rape?

• Waiting when Mulayam’s rape remarks will be endorsed by Azam’s secular buffaloes, then it shall be a law in his territory.
  • — Ashutosh (@ashutosh083B) April 10, 2014 [4], quoted from Indian Express, 2014 Mulayam’s shocker: Boys will be boys, they make mistakes… Will you hang them for rape?

See also

• Ayodhya firing incident