Kapildeo Singh

Socialist leader Kapildeo Singh was a Socialist leader and the General Secretary of the Samajwadi Party. 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. He took an active part in the freedom struggle and political emancipation of the masses after independence. He died in 2002, and his shraddh ceremony was attended by both Mulayam Singh Yadav and Laloo Yadav.