Party Wrongly Blaming Me for Decisions that Backfired: Amar Singh

Expelled SP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh has blamed the leadership of his party for using him as a ‘dust bin’ and then holding him responsible of the decision that backfired, reported PTI.

“My journey in SP has been from a dust bin to being termed as garbage,” he was quoted as saying by while talking to reporters in New Delhi.

He said that party was holding him responsible for the decisions that the party leadership took after they backfired, one of them extending the hand of friendship to former BJP leader Kalyan Singh, said report.

Singh claimed that most the decisions were taken by party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his cousin Rama Goapal Yadav, said report.

“Now I am being blamed for them… I am a kshatriya. Had they asked me to take responsibility for the wrong decisions they have taken, I would have readily accepted. But it is a conspiracy to blame me for everything which went wrong,” he was quoted as saying.

Also, the expelled leader claimed that when he was recovering in a Singapore hospital last year, both Mulayam and Kalyan shared the dias during the party’s convention in Agra.

“Do you think that I became a ghost and whispered in Mulayam Singhji’s ears to place the party’s red cap on Kalyan Singh’s head,” Singh was quoted as saying.

The former SP leader said that several Muslim leaders and workers were ‘shocked’ at the party’s move to shake hands with Kalyan Singh, said report.

“But they were forced to raise slogans like Kalyan Singh zindabad,” he said, adding that blaming him for getting close to Kalyan Singh was wrong on part of leaders like national spokesperson Mohan Singh and general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav, said report.