Why is Amar Singh so important to Mulayam Singh Yadav?

October 25, 2016 09:17

The businessman with the reputation of being Mulayam's "crisis manager", Amar Singh is, for a change, at the centre of the Samajwadi Party storm.

What, though, makes Amar Singh significant enough for Mulayam to publicly upbraid his son? Mulayam's friendship with Amar Singh goes back to the days when Veer Bahadur Singh was chief minister of the Congress government in UP, in 1985-88. He joined the SP formally in 1996 and went to Rajya Sabha courtesy Mulayam.

Amar raised funds for the SP, served as a bridge between SP and industrialists and brought the Bollywood stars to Saifai's simplistic Samajwadi politics. When Mulayam became defence minister in Third Front government, Amar assumed the role of the second powerful man in SP, getting jobs executed with a single phone-call.

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