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Samajwadi Party MLA Sudhakar Singh passed away at a private hospital in Lucknow Thursday. He was 67. He had been representing the Ghosi Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh since 2023 after defeating former minister Dara Singh Chauhan in a bypoll.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav went to the hospital where Sudhakar Singh was admitted and expressed his condolences. In a post on X, he said, “The demise of Sudhakar Singh ji, Samajwadi Party MLA from Ghosi Assembly, is extremely heartbreaking. May God grant peace to his soul.”
Meanwhile, the SP in a statement referred to him as ‘Sacche Samajwadi’ (true socialist).
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also posted on X. “The passing away of the Honorable MLA Shri Sudhakar Singh Ji from the Ghosi Assembly Constituency of Mau District is extremely heartbreaking. My humble tribute to him. My condolences are with the bereaved family members. I pray to Lord Shri Ram that the departed soul be granted eternal peace and the grieving family be bestowed with the strength to bear this immense sorrow. Om Shanti!”
Sudhakar Singh had previously also won the Ghosi seat in the 2012 election, beating Phagu Chauhan, who was a minister in the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government under Mayawati from 2017 to 2012.
Sudhakar Singh had been involved with the SP for over three decades and remained with the party despite facing ups and downs, including being denied a ticket in the 2022 Assembly elections. He gained prominence after defeating Chauhan in the 2023 bypoll by a significant margin of over 42,000 votes.
Chauhan had left the BJP just before the 2022 Assembly elections and joined the SP. The SP fielded Chauhan from the Ghosi Assembly seat in 2022, instead of Sudhakar Singh. Although Chauhan won the seat as the SP candidate, defeating BJP’s Vijay Rajbhar by a margin of around 22,000 votes, he changed sides again when the BJP under Yogi Adityanath retained power in the state.
Because of Chauhan’s defection back to the BJP, the seat became vacant, leading to the bypoll in 2023.
Sources said Sudhakar Singh recently attended the wedding of Umar Ansari, the younger son of former MLA Mukhtar Ansari, in Delhi, and that his health deteriorated soon after returning. He was first admitted to a hospital in Varanasi and later shifted to a private hospital in Lucknow, where he breathed his last.
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