New Delhi: In an apparent rebuff to Amar
Singh, Congress today dismissed the sulking Samajwadi Party
leader`s claim suggesting that his DNA was Congress.
"First you have to define what is DNA", AICC General
Secretary Digvijay Singh told reporters giving signals that
the ruling party was not interested in inducting him despite
his statements favouring the party and its leadership.
Digviajay Singh, who is in charge of party affairs in
Uttar Pradesh, is not on the best of terms with Amar Singh who
had attacked him during the seat-sharing talks between the two
parties in the Lok Sabha polls. The tie-up between the two
parties failed to materialise.
Amar Singh had recalled in an interview that he had
started in Congress and "my DNA is not anti-Congress" and
that he admired Rahul Gandhi.
The SP leader had also claimed that some people in the
Congress are holding against him certain anti-Sonia Gandhi
statements made by him in the past. "I was only mouthing what
my party wanted me to do. I had nothing personal against
her.", he had said.
At the AICC briefing, party spokesman Shakeel Ahmed
described as an "internal matter of SP" the acceptance of
resignation of Amar Singh from various party posts.
The talk in Congress circles is that Amar Singh wants
to join Mamata Banerjee`s Trinamool Congress as that party is
a key ally of the Congress at the Centre which could give
Singh a foothold in UPA. Singh had a good rapport with
Banerjee till sometime back and her party`s immediate goal is
to win assembly polls in West Bengal scheduled next year.
PTI
