Sharad Yadav’s Last Rites to Take Place in His Ancestral Village in MP

GG News Bureau

Bhopal, 13th Jan. Sharad Yadav, a veteran socialist leader and former Janata Dal (United) president, will be laid to rest on Saturday in his ancestral village in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram district, according to a close associate.

Yadav, a former Union minister, died on Thursday in a Gurugram private hospital. He was 75.

Govind Yadav, former JD (U) Madhya Pradesh unit head and close associate of Yadav, said the veteran leader’s last rites will be performed on Saturday at his ancestral village Ankhmau in Babai tehsil of Narmadapuram (earlier Hoshangabad) district.

The mortal remains of Yadav will be brought from Delhi to Madhya Pradesh by plane, he said.

After starting out as a student leader, Sharad Yadav’s Lok Sabha byelection victory from Jabalpur in MP in 1974 as opposition candidate against the Congress catapulted him into national politics, he reminisced.

In his long political career, Sharad Yadav won Lok Sabha election seven times and was Rajya Sabha MP four times, he said.

Besides Jabalpur, he also won Lok Sabha polls from Badayun in Uttar Pradesh and Madhepura in Bihar, which was a rare achievement for any politician, Govind Yadav added.