Kapildeo Singh
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Socialist leader Kapildeo Singh was a Socialist leader and the General Secretary of the Samajwadi Party.[1] He was a veteran follower of Ram Manohar Lohia and designated the new Samajwadi Party's ideology as one based on socialist ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and Ram Manohar Lohia.[2] A member of the Bhumihar Brahmin community, he took an active part in the freedom struggle and political emancipation of the masses after independence.[3] He died in 2002, and his shraddh ceremony was attended by both Mulayam Singh Yadav and Laloo Yadav.[4]
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