'Mulayamwadi' Amar Singh threatens to quit Rajya Sabha

August 22, 2016 21:59

Claiming that people close to Mulayam Singh Yadav are being "insulted" in the Samajwadi Party, its MP Amar Singh today threatened to resign as a Rajya Sabha member.

"I have never said I am Samajwadi. I am Mulayamwadi... But it has become kind of a crime to be Mulayamwadi," he said.

He said he is awaiting a meeting with Mulayam to discuss the issue. "I will hand it (resignation letter) directly to (Rajya Sabha Chairman) Hamid Ansari. I am not the one who use resignation as a pressure tactic," he told Aaj Tak.

Singh, who had recently returned to the SP fold, said several senior party leaders were opposed to his return.

In Rajya Sabha, he said, he sits at the back benches with party leaders like Reoti Raman Singh and Beni Prasad Verma, while leaders like Naresh Agarwal hog the limelight. "When personal choices overtake merit, politics suffers," he said without naming the leader who had been targeting him.

He said he is maintaining silence as Mulayam has advised him to keep "mum".

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