A 'Mulayam Singh Yadav' emerges each election season in Uttar Pradesh and once even forced 'Netaji' to suffix his father's name to assert his real electoral identity.
The SP patron is not in the fray this time and hopefully his namesakes may also be taking a break from elections.
But this was not so in the past when the namesakes sought to give a headache to the Samajwadi Party leader.
It was in 1989, when for the first time Mulayam was compelled to suffix his father's name (Sughar Singh) to assert his "real electoral" identity, when his namesake challenged him from Jaswantnagar Assembly constituency – the bastion of Yadav family.
The situation continued in the assembly elections of 1991 and 1993 as well.