SP questions timing of Amar Singh's resignation

Two days after Amar Singh resigned from all Samajwadi Party posts, a senior leader of the party has questioned the timing of the decision and said making public about SP's functioning was 'most immoral.'

When party leaders and cadres are facing immense pressure from the Mayawati government, Singh announced his resignation on the eve of the crucial assembly council elections in Uttar Pradesh, SP general secretary Mohan Singh told PTI over phone. It had a demoralising effect on party cadres, he said.

"Whatever political identity Amar Singh today has is because of the Samajwadi Party as no other political party would have given him the kind of important responsibilities that SP did, and going public about its functioning is most immoral," he said.

Mohan Singh, who has been closely associated with party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, said the manner in which Amar Singh had expressed himself through public indicated that he had made up his mind to quit the party.

Terming the resignation as unfortunate, Mohan Singh said it would damage the image of both Amar Singh and the party.

"In the past 15 years, Amar Singh had become a symbol for the party and he too had gained immense popularity because of the faith and confidence shown in him by the party leadership which had given him a free hand," he said.

He also took exception to the allegations of family control in the Samajwadi Party.

"If this is the case, Amar Singh who had been in the decision making position in the party in the past 15 years, is to be blamed equally," he said.

Meanwhile, another senior party leader, on condition of anonymity, said every time Amar Singh had threatened to resign in the past, he has had his way and got some senior party leader expelled.

But this time he has 'bitten more than he could chew by targeting senior leaders like Ram Gopal Yadav, Janeshwar Misra and Mohan Singh and the general feeling in the party is that the leadership should desist from wooing him back,' the leader said.