- News>
- India
Amar Singh meets Sonia
New Delhi, Aug 07: Angry over senior Congress leader from Uttar Pradesh Salman Khurshid`s reported statement opposing Congress-Samajwadi Party electoral tie-up in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party tonight lodged a strong protest with AICC president Sonia Gandhi conveying to her this was not good for `growing` relations between the two parties.
New Delhi, Aug 07: Angry over senior Congress leader from Uttar Pradesh Salman Khurshid's reported statement opposing Congress-Samajwadi Party electoral tie-up in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party tonight lodged a strong protest with AICC president Sonia Gandhi conveying to her this was not good for "growing" relations between the two parties.
SP general secretary Amar Singh met Gandhi at her
residence here this evening and conveyed to her the party's
unhappiness over Khurshid's comparing SP with a 'chinti'
(ant).
The SP leadership is livid at the former UPCC president's dismissing Samajwadi Party as an ant and seeing Congress as an elephant at a meeting of Congress workers in Lucknow four days ago, ruling out any tie-up between the two in Uttar Pradesh in the next polls.
Emerging from the over 30-minute meeting, Singh told reporters "in public life one should not use such language and that too by a person educated at Oxford."
He said Samajwadi Party was for strengthening growing ties with Congress to take on communal forces not only in Uttar Pradesh but at the national level.
Singh expressed the hope that that the type of statement made by Khurshid has come only from a particular section of Congress and said if there was an understanding between Sonia Gandhi and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, statement by other leaders have no meaning.
Singh also emphasised the need for maintaining relations between the two parties and apprised Gandhi about SP's Bhopal declaration of forging tie-ups with like-minded secular forces. Bureau Report
The SP leadership is livid at the former UPCC president's dismissing Samajwadi Party as an ant and seeing Congress as an elephant at a meeting of Congress workers in Lucknow four days ago, ruling out any tie-up between the two in Uttar Pradesh in the next polls.
Emerging from the over 30-minute meeting, Singh told reporters "in public life one should not use such language and that too by a person educated at Oxford."
He said Samajwadi Party was for strengthening growing ties with Congress to take on communal forces not only in Uttar Pradesh but at the national level.
Singh expressed the hope that that the type of statement made by Khurshid has come only from a particular section of Congress and said if there was an understanding between Sonia Gandhi and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, statement by other leaders have no meaning.
Singh also emphasised the need for maintaining relations between the two parties and apprised Gandhi about SP's Bhopal declaration of forging tie-ups with like-minded secular forces. Bureau Report