New Delhi: Veteran Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh finally broke his silence on Friday and said he feared a serious threat to his life from expelled party member Ram Gopal Yadav who wrongly blamed him for the ongoing crisis in the party.
“All that is happening, the infighting and the family feud going in the Samajwadi Party could be the brainchild of Ram Gopal Yadav,” Singh told the media here adding that “Ram Gopal Yadav is no ordinary person, he knows how to use a pen as well as a carbine. If I die or am hurt, Ram Gopal Yadav is to be blamed for that.”
While party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, his brother Shivpal Yadav and Amar Singh are blaming Ram Gopal Yadav as the villain behind the current infighting in the party, Yadav and Chief Minister (CM) Akhilesh Yadav are blaming Shivpal and Amar Singh for breaking up the family.
Expressing displeasure over not being invited to SP’s election campaign by CM Akhilesh, Singh said, “I have not been invited for the election campaign on November 3. So I have decided not to attend the Samajwadi Party’s silver jubilee celebrations on November five as the supporters of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav might physically hurt me.”
Singh said he was hurt by the “dalal” (pimp) comment made by CM Yadav against him last week.
“I am hurt with Akhilesh Yadav calling me a ‘dalal’. I do not want to remain in politics, this is not politics. It was actor and Congress leader Raj Babbar who had first called him a ‘dalal’, and now it is Akhilesh Yadav. I cant tolerate this,” Singh stated.
At the stormy SP meeting in Lucknow last week, CM Yadav had called Singh a ‘dalal’ and asked his father, party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, to sack him from the party.
Scolding his son on this, Mulayam had said, “you all know nothing about Amar Singh. He had saved me from going to prison at one point of time.”
An angry Mulayam asked Akhilesh to shut up and sit down.
However, Singh on Friday expressed anguish over being made the fall-guy by CM Yadav. He said it was he who had stood by the CM when his family was opposing his marriage.
“When Akhilesh Yadav’s family opposed his marriage to Dimple, I was the only who stood by him, not even his father Mulayam Singh. But today I am hurt by his words. There is no photo of his wedding, where this ‘dalal’ is not there,” Singh stressed.
Singh said he had high regard for Mulayam who had given him recognition in politics.
“I will stand by Mulayam Singh Yadav’s son Akhilesh Yadav even if he continues to abuse me. If he ever goes through any crisis, I will stand by him. Let him remove me from the party or from the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament), I am ready for that. Akhilesh Yadav is a good face, he needs the experience of Mulayam Singh. If my sacrifice can solve the problem, I am ready for it,” he said.
