The position of Amitabh’s wife Jaya Bachchan, a Rajya Sabha MP from the SP, has become a little untenable following Amar’s resignation. The SP has yet not clarified its stand on Jaya.
“Jaya Bachchan is, of course, is not in the same boat as the other Jaya (Prada),” commented an SP leader. Amar Singh was instrumental in bringing the Bachchan family and industrialist Anil Ambani close to the SP.
Party general secretary Mohan Singh has now claimed that the party has been cleaned of “capitalist elements.”According to sources, Anil Ambani is also reportedly looking for a political shift.
Amitabh has recently been seen in the company of two BJP chief ministers. He watched his movie “Paa” with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gandhi Nagar and Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in Bangalore.
Subsequently, Modi offered the film star the post of the brand ambassador of Guajarat, which was duly accepted by Bachchan.
Bachchan, a brand ambassador of Uttar Pradesh during the Mulayam Singh government had projected the latter as a chief minister who had brought down the crime rate in the state.
This was contrary to the popular view and Yadav lost the assembly polls to Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati that year. The Bachchan cross-over to Modi may also have an endorsement from Amar Singh, sources added.