Amar Singh, one-time loyalist of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, is no more

Former Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh (27 January 1956 - 1 August 2020) passed away after a prolonged illness on Saturday. He was 64. (Photo: Express Archive)

Mulayam Singh in an animated conversation with Amar Singh as Pramod Tiwari looks on during an Iftar party at Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s residence, in Lucknow (Archive/Express photo by Vishal Srivastav)

Earlier this year, diagnosed with a kidney ailment, Singh was admitted to a hospital in Singapore for several months. In Picture: Amar Singh with the then BJP president Amit Shah at Parliament House in New Delhi. (Express Photo by Anil Sharma)

Singh, a one-time loyalist of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, was expelled for the second time from the party in 2017. In Picture: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav along with former party leader Amar Singh and Shivpal Singh Yadav at a Roza Iftar organised at Yadav's official residence in Lucknow in 2016. (Express Photo by Vishal Srivastav)

During his first stint of 14 years from 1996 to 2010, Amar Singh networked extensively for the party and was frequently seen with celebrities from Anil Ambani to Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, from Sanjay Dutt to Subrata Roy. In Picture: Amar Singh at the Indian Express office during Idea Exchange on September 30, 2016. (Express Photo By Amit Mehra)

In 2011, Singh floated his own political party called Rashtriya Lok Manch and fielded over 300 candidates in the 2012 UP polls but won none. In Picture: Amar Singh at Vigyan Bhawan for Bhavishya ka Bharat by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in New Delhi on September 17, 2018 Express Photo by Prem Nath Pandey.

Former SP leader Amar Singh with party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, MS Swaminathan and former Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu (Archive/Express Photo by Ravi Batra)

Six years after his expulsion, the SP made amends and nominated him to the Rajya Sabha in May 2016. In Picture: SP MP Jaya Bachchan, Amar Singh and Azam Khan's wife and Rajya Sabha MP Tazeen Fatima at the Parliament House in New Delhi in July 2019. (Express Photo by Anil Sharma)

TMC Leader Derek O'brien and Amar Singh during the budget session of Parliament in New Delhi in 2018.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Amar Singh at the Parliament House in New Delhi. (Express Photo by Anil Sharma)

Former Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha with Sahara's Subrata Roy and MP Amar Singh at a corporate exhibition in Lucknow. (Express archive photo)