When during the Deve Gauda government Mulayam Singh Yadav was India’s Defense Minister, he took one significant decision which will be remembered in the history of free India’s defense forces.

That was a period between 1996 and 1998 when Mulayam Singh Yadav was known as the Indian Defense Minister. It was the time when he took a grand decision which is unforgettable for a nationalist India.

This decision will always be praised not only by all military personnel but also by every citizen of India. Defense Minister Mulayam Singh with one of his grand decisions started a precedence that helped the family of Indian soldiers to see their martyred kin at home and from then on they have this privilege to observe the last rites for the deceased.

Before this every time when an Indian soldier died on the line of duty, only his cap and belt used to reach to his home after him. But Mulayam Singh Yadav changed this rule and then as per his own initiative the dead body of a solider reaches his or her home and the family members could see him or her for the last time while doing their final duty with the cremation.