Kapildeo Singh

Singh 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] He took an active part in the freedom struggle and political emancipation of the masses after independence.^[3] He died in 2002, and his funeral was attended by both Mulayam Singh Yadav and Laloo Yadav.^[4]