The Samajwadi Party has maintained that there is no possibility for expelled party leader Amar Singh to come back into the party fold. The party refuted the claim of Mr Singh in his blog that delegates in the just concluded National Executive Meeting had raised the question of his return into the party.
“In the Kolkata meet, a question was raised that Amar Singh wanted to come back into the party fold. Should he be taken back into the party or not,” Mr Singh wrote in his recent post in his blog.
However, SP general secretary and West Bengal minister, Kiranmay Nanda, while refuting the claims of Mr Singh, told this newspaper that on the contrary it was decided that the expelled leader would never be taken back into the party fold.
“The delegates in the national executive meeting had rather questioned why Mr Amar Singh was allowed to join the party in the first place. There was an unanimous view during the Kolkata meet that Mr Singh had done irreparable damage to the party,” Mr Nanda added. He went on to say that the party leadership has taken the firm view not to take Mr Singh back into the party. “He is wrong in his claims about the deliberations at the Kolkata meet. There is no chance for his return,” Mr Nanda stated.
Dealing with episode leading to his expulsion from the party, Mr Singh has stated that none from the party came to persuade him and he had to leave the party disheartened. He also rued the fact that he was humiliated within the party before expulsion. “This (the expulsion) had been more inhuman on the part of the party as I had just returned after serious illness,” Mr Singh has noted.
The expelled leader has also attached copies of letters written by the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to the Rajya Sabha secretariat to prove the point that it was incorrect on the part of the SP to say that he had left the party and was not expelled.
The SP and Mr Singh have charted out different political paths in Uttar Pradesh. While the SP has adopted the policy to politically ignore Mr Singh, the expelled leader has been attacking the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on all possible occasions.