'There is no application on my behalf pending before the SP Parliamentary Board for re-...
'There is no application on my behalf pending before the SP Parliamentary Board for re-...
New Delhi:
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 supreme 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 India TV on 'Aaj ki Baat' show according to a press release issued by the channel. He said he had gone to Saifai at the invitation of Mulayam and -"no political angle should be seen into this visit-".
-"I had gone to Saifai (Mulayam Singh's hometown) to attend a social programme and it is wrong to say that I forcibly sat near Mulayam Singh ji in his car. There were speeches by Ramgopal ji (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.
Singh said Mulayam Singh 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 with Mulayam Singh ji,-" he said, adding that he never gate crashed.
Singh's clarifications come in wake of remarks by his rival Azam Khan on Sunday. Khan said, -"A lot of waste comes where there is a storm-" and had added that -"even the driver and gunmen sit with Mulayam Singh in his car-".
Reacting to Khan's comments, 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, including the diamond, because a 'jamadaar' can only see garbage. He cannot identify a diamond.-"
Reacting to Khan's charge that he was trying to wangle a Rajya Sabha nomination from Samajwadi Party, Singh said, -"I was nominated and elected thrice to Rajya Sabha for a total of 18 years. I would rather want his (Khan's) son to be given the Rajya Sabha ticket, since he (Khan) is a minister and chancellor for life of Maulana Mihammas Ali Jauhar University, and his wife is in Rajya Sabha.-"
-"I never sought a Rajya Sabha ticket, I can challenge, let Mulayam Singh ji say if I ever sought an RS ticket from him,-" he said, adding that Mulayam Singh sent him to Rajya Sabha thrice without an application or approval from Parliamentary Board of party.
-"Those who are worried about my Rajya Sabha nomination should have Alprax tablet and have a sound sleep,-" Singh said.
