New Delhi:
After almost a two-year political sabbatical, Jaya Bachchan is now once again making an entry into active politics.
Today she filed her nomination for Rajya Sabha as a Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate and is likely to get elected uncontested. She was a Rajya Sabha MP earlier from the party and her tenure came to an end in February, 2010.
She filed her nomination today in front of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Mrs Bachchan was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2004 as a SP nominee. She, however, declined the offer to be re-nominated after completing her term in 2010 when former SP leader Amar Singh, a man who was instrumental in shaping her political career, was suspended from the Samajwadi Party for his open defiance to Mulayam Singh Yadav.
However, she eventually sided with Mulayam Singh Yadav and the Bachchans snapped ties with Amar Singh who vowed to avenge what he called the betrayal by Mulayam Singh.
After its victory in the Assembly polls, the Samajwadi Party can send six MPs to the Rajya Sabha or Upper House. Besides Mrs Bachchan, the other five who are filing their nominations are Kiranmaya Nanda, Darshan Singh, Munnavar Salim, Brajbhushan Tiwari and Naresh Agarwal.