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Describing his death as a "huge loss" for the country, PM Modi said he shared a very special bond with Mulayam Singh, who was mostly a BJP rival in his long political career. New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, campaigning in Gujarat today, took some moments to share memories of veteran Uttar Pradesh politician Mulayam Singh Yadav, who died this morning at 82. Describing his death as a “huge loss” for the country, PM Modi said he shared a very special bond with Mulayam Singh, who was mostly on the opposite side of the spectrum in his long political career. The PM and Mulayam Singh were, for a few years, Chief Ministers at the same time. “When we were both Chief Ministers, we felt a lot of affinity for each other,” PM Modi said, addressing a large rally in Bharuch ahead of polls in Gujarat later this year. He said when he was nominated by the BJP as presumptive Prime Minister in 2013, he called and spoke with several opposition leaders “to seek their blessings” and the...