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Rare footage of Mulayam Singh at home, at work and chatting with party colleagues in a very politico fashion. He is followed out by his very attentive cronies. He drives out of his house in a Daewoo Cielo car - remember that one, folks? Mulayam Singh Yadav, (born November 22, 1939, Saifai, Etawah district, India), Indian politician and government official who founded and was the longtime leader of the Samajwadi (Socialist) Party (SP) of India. He served three times as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state (1989–91, 1993–95, and 2003–07). Yadav was raised in a poor farming family near Etawah, in what is now west-central Uttar Pradesh, one of six children. He initially wanted to become a wrestler, but he went to college and completed a master’s degree in political science from Agra Universit