Amar Singh: Not applied for SP re-entry

Former SP leader Amar Singh has said that he has not applied for “entry” to the party headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav and his meetings with the SP supremo were for personal reasons and not political.

“There is no application on my behalf pending before the Samajwadi Party Parliamentary Board for re-entry,” Amar Singh told a TV channel.

He said he had gone to Sefai on the invitation of Mulayam and “no political angle should be seen into this visit”.

“I had gone to Sefai (Mulayam Singh’s hometown) to attend a social programme and it is wrong to say that I forcibly sat near Mulayam Singhji in his car. There were speeches by Ramgopalji (party general secretary) and myself, and people can also say that I grabbed the mike. There is no need to rake up such controversies,” he added.

Mr Singh said Mr Yadav is the president of the Samajwadi Party and it was his birthday. “I have good relations with him, he invited me and I went there. You can check it out from Mulayam Singhji,” he said, adding that he never gatecrashed.

Mr Singh’s clarifications come in wake of remarks by his rival Azam Khan on Sunday. Mr Khan said, “A lot of waste comes where is a storm” and had added that “even the driver and gunmen sit with Mulayam Singh in his car”.

Reacting to Mr Khan’s comments, Mr Singh said, “Some people have remarked about garbage coming in a storm. Actually one finds diamonds inside a mine and it is the jeweller who can identify a diamond. A sweeper is one who brushes off the garbage.”