WATCH: 'Mera shav bhi BJP ke jhande me lipat jaye', when Kalyan Singh pledged allegiance to Saffron Party

Paying tribute to the veteran leader, Uttar Pradesh BJP also shared an old clip where Singh is seen pledging his allegiance to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

New Delhi: Two-time Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP veteran Kalyan Singh died in Lucknow on Saturday (August 21, 2021) night. Singh, who was undergoing treatment at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI), took his last breath at the age of 89. Singh held various organisational posts in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the state and the central level. He was also a former governor of Rajasthan and was instrumental in the rise of the Saffron Party to power in Uttar Pradesh in the 1990s. Singh, notably, was the Uttar Pradesh chief minister when the Babri mosque was demolished by a mob of 'karsevaks' in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. He was among the 32 people who were acquitted in the demolition case in September 2020.