Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said on Tuesday that a grand memorial would be built in the honour of founder Mulayam Singh Yadav in his native village Saifai in Etawah district.
“Efforts will be made to get this memorial completed before the 2027 UP assembly elections. Netaji remained connected to the soil throughout his life, started from the village and made his place in the politics of the country,” the SP president said.
The foundation stone of the memorial will be laid on November 22, Mulayam’s birth anniversary. He was most fond of Saifai, the SP chief said.
Before announcing the construction of the memorial, Akhilesh, SP general secretary Shivpal Singh Yadav and senior leader Uday Pratap Singh paid tributes to India’s first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and socialist leader Acharya Narendra Dev on their birth anniversaries.
Giving details about the memorial, former MP Uday Pratap said it would be built on 8.3 acres of land. There is a plan to have a grand park and public facilities on 4.5 acres of land for ease of access to the memorial. There would be an auditorium in the middle in which his grand bronze statue would be installed, Pratap said, adding Netaji paid maximum attention to folk language, folk culture and folk art. The former MP said this memorial would be a memorable one for the people of the country.
