Thursday, January 7, 2010

Amar Singh on way to leave SP

All powerful Samajwadi Party leader and its face among corporate world Amar Singh has resigned from all party posts citing health reason and family responsibility. Though it is not the first time that he has tendered his resignation as weapon of blackmailing SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, this time it may prove to be his miscalculation . The real reason behind Amar Singh’s resignation is his marginalisation within the party just after the humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. The main cause of SP’s dwindling strength is also Amar Singh. He took SP away from its grassroot connection and propelled it into the limelight on TV news channels and newspapers by connecting it with Corporate world and Bollywood. But SP’s strength lies in rural India from which it got away and forgot the real meaning of socialism. Mulayam Singh Yadav started his political career as a socialist and initially before associating with Amar Singh he was known as the beckon light of socialist forces and a champion of secularism. But with Amar Singh joining SP bandwagon, he changed its philosophy at the cost of its rural social base. The old Samajwadis started feeling ignored within the party and corporates and Bollywood actors and actress got prominence over them, resulting in the desertion of its original votebanks. It is due to Amar Singh style of politics that Mulayam’s lieutenant Raj Babbar and Samajwadi Party’s Muslim face Azam Khan resigned from the party. The humiliating defeat of SP candidate Dimple Yadav in Ferozabad at the hands of Mulayam’s ex-lieutenant Congress candidate Raj Babbar brought the difference between Mulayam and Amar Singh to the fore. The ascendency of Mulayam’s son Akhilesh Yadav and his other family members in the party also did not go well with Amar Singh. He finally realised that his marginalisation process within the party has started when no party functionary visited Singapore to see him when he was under going transplantation of Kidney there. Amar Singh may not have any grassroot political base but he is credited with managing financial requirements of the party and maintaining excellent rapport with other likeminded political parties and leaders. As Mulayam Singh Yadav has himself said that this is not the first time that Amar Singh has sent resignation letter from all party posts, it will also not be easy for him to accept it this time. But he must realise that socialistic brand of politics can not go a long way on the line Amar Singh has brought SP. To retrieve the lost ground of the party , Mulayam has to go back on the old turf of socialism.Amar Singh may not have any base among the people but his connection with corporate world and bollywood is his strength.He is not as much beneficial politically to the regional party like SP as he damages its vote bank base. His way of politics is completely opposed to the principle of socialism. So it will be better for Mulayam Singh Yadav in the interest of his political interest to sever ties with leader like Amar Singh.

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