"For an apology to Muslims, a Muslim Prime Minister is needed," Singh, who recently quit all organisational posts in his party, said while campaigning for party colleague Abu Azmi's son Farhan, who is contesting Bhiwandi assembly by-election in Maharashtra.
Shah Rukh Khan seems very upset with Amar Singh.
Addressing an election meeting, Amar Singh charged Mulayam with giving protection to the corrupt and criminals and said that Yadav's cycle, SP's poll symbol, "had two wheels (Mualyam and Amar Singh) of which one has been removed and with one wheel left it would only grace a circus after the polls".
Softening his stand against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh said on Sunday that Raj's statement regarding migrants spreading Malaria was not from his heart.
Desperate to acquire some political identity after being ousted from the Samajwadi Party, one-time high-profile leader Amar Singh has eventually pitched in with a bandwagon of small-time politicians, struggling with their respective demands for creation of smaller states.
Moments after being expelled from Samajwadi Party, Amar Singh on Tuesday struck a defiant note ruling out quitting his Rajya Sabha seat and termed as baseless reports about his cosying up to Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Bahujan Samaj Party.
The Uttar Pradesh government has handed over the case against Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and others for alleged financial fraud amounting to Rs 500 crore to the Economic Offences Wing of the state police, official sources said.
The Allahabad High Court on Saturday turned down a plea to initiate criminal proceedings against Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh.The petition was moved by Shiv Kant Tripathi, a lawyer, who had earlier this week lodged a FIR in a Kanpur police station, accusing Singh of committing a huge fraud through his alleged money laundering operations, during his stint as the chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Development Council.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday took serious note of unauthorised phone tapping by private telecom companies and sought Centre's response on the action taken against Reliance Infocom for intercepting politician Amar Singh's telephone five years ago.
Three persons, including the shop owner, have been arrested for the attack that took place in the Rawatpur area around 9 pm on Saturday. A search is underway for a fourth accused, they said.
While Paswan and Singh were stopped at the Delhi-UP border, the LJP chief's younger brother and Lok Sabha member Ramchandra Paswan was taken into custody by the Uttar Pradesh Police. The leaders were going towards Greater Noida to disburse Rs two lakh as relief to the families of the victims of police firing last week.
"I have no differences with Mulayam Singh Yadav. However, in reply to Ram Gopal's comment that film actors have not been beneficial for the party, I would like to say that Jaya Bachchan is in the party on her own esteem and Jaya Prada (party's Rampur MP) has broken the Congress stronghold there," Singh said.
Samajvadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh has accepted an offer from Dev Anand to star in the filmmaker's next venture.
Terming the cash-for-votes scandal as "mother of all scams", senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday demanded that a special investigation team be set up to find out who was the beneficiary.
Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh's interim bail in 2008 cash-for-vote scam was extended till Wednesday by a Delhi court. Special judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal extended Singh's interim bail for a day while reserving for Wednesday her order on his regular bail.
The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday said that former Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kalyan Singh has neither joined the party nor is he being given party ticket for the forthcoming elections. "Mulayam Yadav Kalyan Singh ke raste pe nahi, Kalyan Mulayam ke raste pe hai (Mulayam is not following Kalyan's path, Kalyan is following in Mulayam's footsteps)," party General Secretary Amar Singh said, responding to criticism over the former Uttar Pradesh CM's association with the SP.
The Allahabad High Court on Friday held the Enforcement Directorate could launch an investigation into a criminal case filed against former Samajwadi Party secretary general Amar Singh whenever the agency felt the same was required.
"I appeal to the party members to stand with Netaji Mulayam Singh. Whatever is happening is very unfortunate," he said.
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday submitted before a full bench of Allahabad high court its inquiry report on allegations of money laundering against Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh.
Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Wednesday claimed there was a threat to the life of party Member of Legislative Assembly Abu Asim Azmi, who was assaulted by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena members in the Maharashtra assembly for taking oath in Hindi defying Raj Thackeray's diktat.
Samajwadi Party leaders Amar Singh and Ram Gopal Yadav met President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday. Amar Singh handed over to the President a list of Lok Sabha MPs who contested under the SP symbol.
After his friend Amitabh Bachchan became Gujarat's brand ambassador, expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Tuesday said Chief Minister Narendra Modi could be "loved or hated but not ignored".
Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Wednesday said the Dehradun court sentencing party member Amarmani Tripathi to life in the Madhumita murder case was not the 'ultimate' decision as he can approach higher courts. "I am simply saying that this is not the ultimate decision. There are many courts left for clarifications as far as Tripathi is concerned and he should be given that opportunity," the party general secretary said.
Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh, an accused in the 2008 cash-for-vote case, on Monday moved the Delhi high court seeking bail.
The Centre Saturday said the tapping of telephone of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh was a sting operation organised by a private party and there was no involvement of any political party or personality behind it.
Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh on Friday appeared before the Delhi Police for questioning in the cash-for-vote scam.
Expelled Samajwadi Party leader and president of newly floated Rastriya Lok Manch (RLM) Amar Singh on Sunday claimed that he was facing threat to his life from SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
B K Verma (40), a resident of Lajpat Nagar, had been making phone calls to the SP general secretary claiming that he was a senior law officer and could help him if he paid him Rs 5 crore, a senior police official said.
The health parameters of Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh, who has been arrested for his alleged role in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam and who is seeking interim bail from a Delhi court on medical ground, has been described in medical reports from Tihar jail as "stable and normal".
The Delhi high court on Tuesday deferred till Wednesday the hearing on the bail plea of Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh, arrested for his alleged role in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam.
'I will follow his (Rahul Gandhi) advice of not taking a bachcha seriously and will continue to ignore him,' the Samajwadi Party general secretary said.
The Delhi police on Monday objected to a plea, seeking a city court to direct it to lodge a criminal case against Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh for allegedly kidnapping a key prosecution witness of the 2008 cash-for-vote scam ahead of his deposition before a lawmakers' panel.
The case lodged against Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and others for alleged financial fraud amounting to Rs 500 crore would be handed over to Kolkata police for further investigation, the Uttar Pradesh government said on Saturday.
A Delhi court will on Tuesday decide the interim bail plea of Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Amar Singh, who is currently in lodged in Tihar Jail following his arrest in connection with the 2008 cash-for-vote case. Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal on Monday reserved her order after hearing senior advocate Ram Jethmalani, who argued the case of the 55-year-old former Samajwadi Party general secretary. Singh "is not going to die but is really sick," Jethamalani pleaded.
He charged the Congress with a conspiracy against SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and denying him an appropriate bungalow.
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Special judge Sangeeta Dhigra Sehgal on Tuesday deferred a decision on former Samajwadi Party leader and member of Rajya Sabha Amar Singh's bail hearing in the cash-for-votes scam to Thursday.
Giving relief to expelled Samajwadi Party MPs Amar Singh and Jaya Prada, the Supreme Court directed that no action shall be taken against them under the Anti-Defection Law in the event of their defying a party whip.
An FIR was lodged on Thursday at Babupurwa police station in Kanpur, accusing the SP general secretary and his wife of amalgamating companies for converting black money into white, Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Brij Lal told PTI.
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