SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 19 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 23 of 99

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Mulayam Singh Yadav, who passed away in October 2022, served as the Chief Minister of which state?

(a)Madhya Pradesh
(b)Uttar Pradesh
(c)Gujarat
(d)Bihar

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Mulayam Singh Yadav was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh three times — 1989 to 1991, 1993 to 1995 and 2003 to 2007.

He founded the Samajwadi Party in 1992 and built its base in Uttar Pradesh, and he was Union Defence Minister in the United Front government between 1996 and 1998.

He died on 10 October 2022, which is the event the question dates → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Madhya Pradesh — Madhya Pradesh has no part in his career. His constituency politics ran through the Etawah and Mainpuri region of Uttar Pradesh from the start.
(c)
Gujarat — Gujarat is unconnected. Mulayam Singh sat in the Uttar Pradesh assembly and later in Parliament from Uttar Pradesh seats, never from a western Indian one.
(d)
Bihar — Bihar is the near-miss, because the same post-Mandal socialist stream produced Lalu Prasad Yadav as Chief Minister there. The two are frequently swapped.

Concept

Mulayam Singh Yadav came out of the Lohia socialist tradition and became one of the principal figures of post-Mandal politics in north India.

His Samajwadi Party, founded in 1992, has been a party of government in Uttar Pradesh rather than a national one, and his son Akhilesh Yadav was Chief Minister of the state from 2012 to 2017.

For SSC the usable facts are narrow: the state he governed, the party he founded, the national office he held, and the date of his death.

The question is a current-affairs hook into static politics: it dates the death to October 2022 and then asks something that has been true since 1989.

Key facts

Mulayam Singh Yadav was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1989-91, 1993-95 and 2003-07.
He founded the Samajwadi Party in 1992.
He served as Union Defence Minister in the United Front government between 1996 and 1998.
He died on 10 October 2022.

Study next

The Samajwadi Party and post-Mandal politics in Uttar PradeshChief Ministers matched to their states for personalities in the 2022 newsThe United Front governments of 1996 to 1998 and their ministers

Common traps

Confusing him with Lalu Prasad Yadav, who led the same political stream in Bihar.
Reading the party name Samajwadi as a regional label, when it names an ideology.
Answering with the state he represented in Parliament last rather than the state he governed, which here are the same.

Personality items hang on a dated hook — a death, an award, an appointment. The posthumous Bharat Ratna for Bhupen Hazarika is asked on 26 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.22, and the 2023 Padma Shri for the Pandwani singer Usha Barle at GA Q.9 of this same paper.

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