New Delhi:
Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party has renominated Jaya Bachchan for the Rajya Sabha. News that might come as a bitter blow to the Bachchans' close family friend Amar Singh.
Jaya Bachchan had refused to quit the Samajwadi Party even after the acrimonious exit of Amar Singh in January, saying she would like to complete her Rajya Sabha term.
This despite a very public appeal from Amar Singh then, that she snap ties with Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Speaking to NDTV on February 3 this year, Jaya Bachchan had said, "I would like to continue in the Rajya Sabha. I have six months to go. I would like to complete my term because I have worked very sincerely in the last five-and-a-half years against a lot of odds."
Soon after, Amar Singh said he was "not angry" with Jaya Bachchan for staying with the SP but had indicated that he would prefer that she join him as she too was "unhappy" with party affairs. "Jayaji says she misses me in SP. I want to say that I also miss her today on this dais," Singh said while addressing a "Kshatriya Mahakumbh" rally after his expulsion from the Samajwadi Party.
He wore a brave face when he said that he was not angry. "There is no anger for the Bachchan family. Politics is always separate from family relations. If Jayaji wants to remain within SP then I would like to wish her all the best," Singh told reporters in March.
But after an SP spokesman announced on Wednesday that Jaya Bachchan would be renominated, Amar Singh first refused to talk and then made it personal, "I cannot assure that rival MPs will vote for Jaya. This is just to malign my reputation."
Akhilesh Yadav, Mulayam's son and heir apparent, has a less tangled reason to give for the renomination: "She (Jaya) has been a loyalist and has done great service to the party, which is why the party has decided to nominate her for the Rajya Sabha."
Amar Singh was Mulayam Singh Yadav's trusted lieutenant for years, much to the chagrin of many other Samajwadi Party leaders. They then fell apart on issues political and personal. A war of words was fought in public before Amar Singh was expelled from the Samajwadi Party earlier this year.
Jaya Bachchan had refused to quit the Samajwadi Party even after the acrimonious exit of Amar Singh in January, saying she would like to complete her Rajya Sabha term.
This despite a very public appeal from Amar Singh then, that she snap ties with Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Speaking to NDTV on February 3 this year, Jaya Bachchan had said, "I would like to continue in the Rajya Sabha. I have six months to go. I would like to complete my term because I have worked very sincerely in the last five-and-a-half years against a lot of odds."
Soon after, Amar Singh said he was "not angry" with Jaya Bachchan for staying with the SP but had indicated that he would prefer that she join him as she too was "unhappy" with party affairs. "Jayaji says she misses me in SP. I want to say that I also miss her today on this dais," Singh said while addressing a "Kshatriya Mahakumbh" rally after his expulsion from the Samajwadi Party.
He wore a brave face when he said that he was not angry. "There is no anger for the Bachchan family. Politics is always separate from family relations. If Jayaji wants to remain within SP then I would like to wish her all the best," Singh told reporters in March.
But after an SP spokesman announced on Wednesday that Jaya Bachchan would be renominated, Amar Singh first refused to talk and then made it personal, "I cannot assure that rival MPs will vote for Jaya. This is just to malign my reputation."
Akhilesh Yadav, Mulayam's son and heir apparent, has a less tangled reason to give for the renomination: "She (Jaya) has been a loyalist and has done great service to the party, which is why the party has decided to nominate her for the Rajya Sabha."
Amar Singh was Mulayam Singh Yadav's trusted lieutenant for years, much to the chagrin of many other Samajwadi Party leaders. They then fell apart on issues political and personal. A war of words was fought in public before Amar Singh was expelled from the Samajwadi Party earlier this year.
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