Top leaders from mainstream political parties, including UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar, among others attended the funeral.
Mulayam Singh Yadav was one of the last of his generation of politicians who kept his values intact and did not corporatize his politics. For him, the last man in the line remained important - whether it was from his family, his village or his state. He was a friend of friends and even turned his foes into friends.
SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav too is upbeat about the third front and he has made it clear that there would be no alliance with Congress or Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in UP for the parliament elections of 2024.