Amar must quit RS: New SP spokesman

New Delhi Jan. 27: Close on the heels of the Samajwadi Party accepting the resignation of Amar Singh from all party posts, the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led party on Wednesday accepted the resignations of film actor Sanjay Dutt and Obaidullah Azmi as party general secretaries. Also, in a further setback to Amar Singh, the newly-appointed party’s national spokesperson Mohan Singh, who has also been made a general secretary, demanded Amar Singh’s resignation from the Rajya Sabha too. “Since he has detached himself from the party by resigning from the posts of general secretary, member of parliamentary board and spokesperson, he should re-sign from Rajya Sabha on moral grounds. Rajya Sabha membership is given by the party and, therefore, he sh-ould resign from the Upper House of Parliament.” He further said, “Amar Singh is now part of history. Parties which understand the common man’s issues continue to prosper. It will take sometime for the party to regain its socialist image.” People felt that the SP has become a party of corporates, he said, adding that now party workers will change that perception. Mr Mohan Singh has been appointed as national spoke-sperson and general secretary of the party. Amar Singh had recently quit all party posts over diff-erences with relatives of the SP chief. Party announced the appointment of three new general secretaries in place of Amar Singh, Oba-idullah Azmi and Sanjay Dutt. Besides Mohan Singh, the two other general secretaries are Vishambhar Pras-ad Nishad and Ramasare Kushwaha. Reacting to this, Amar Singh, said, “Mulayam Singh Yadav has kept his word of moving ahead by appointing Mohan Singh as new party Spokesman and leaving an ‘ill’ person like me behind for the sake of power.” He further said the party chief had taken the decision on a day which was incidentally also his (Amar Singh’s) birthday. “I am grateful to Mulayamji for not forgetting an ordinary party worker as he telephoned me in the morning and wished me on my birthday,” said Amar Singh. He further said he did not care much about the new appointments made by Mr Yadav in the party as he was “detached” from all such developments. When asked about his future plans, he said: “I don’t know why the media is so curious about the future of an irrelevant party worker of a regional party, which is neither relevant in UP nor at the Centre.” He, however, said that nobody could predict what would happen in future. “I am relaxing now and not playing politics at all,” said Amar Singh.

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