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B'day spl: Know Mulayam Singh's compulsions behind supporting UPA govt

New Delhi, Sep 27: Mulayam Singh Yadav can be easily termed as the shrewdest but pragmatic socialist politician of India. He swears in the name of maverick Ram Manohar Lohiya, who spent his entire life

This one act of Mulayam established him as the champion of Muslim vote-bank in UP who started looking at him as the messiah who would save them from Hindu fanatics. From here onwards, Muslim vote-bank politics became the cornerstone of Mulayam's political journey.