Mulayam Singh Yadav tests positive for COVID-19; SP patriarch asymptomatic, says party

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the party tweeted on Wednesday.

"Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav has tested positive for COVID-19, and is being monitored by doctors," it said.

समाजवादी पार्टी संस्थापक आदरणीय नेताजी श्री मुलायम सिंह यादव जी की कोरोना टेस्ट रिपोर्ट पॉजिटिव आने के उपरांत चिकित्सकों की देख रेख जारी है।

फिलहाल उनमें कोरोना के एक भी लक्षण नहीं हैं।

— Samajwadi Party (@samajwadiparty) October 14, 2020

The party also said that the eighty-year-old Samajwadi Party leader has shown no symptoms of the viral infection.

With inputs from PTI