India News | Mulayam Singh Yadav Had All Qualities to Be PM: SP Vice President Nanda

Kolkata, Oct 10 (PTI) Describing deceased former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav as a leader of the whole country, Samajwadi Party vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda on Monday said that he had all the qualities to be a prime minister.

Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, also a former defence minister of India, died on Monday at a hospital in Gurugram after a prolonged illness.

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"Mulayam Singh had the capability to run the country efficiently as a prime minister," he told PTI.

Nanda, who was a minister in the erstwhile Left Front government in West Bengal, said that he was with Yadav when the Samajwadi Party was formed in 1992.

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Nanda who is now in Kolkata said that Yadav was very astute and one of the top-most politicians in present-day India.

Yadav had a very close association with Kolkata, he said adding that the Samajwadi Party held its national committee meeting on five occasions in the city since its formation.

"He had a personal relationship with Jyoti Basu. The former chief minister of West Bengal liked him very much," Nanda said.

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