New Delhi: A day after hinting that superstar Amitabh Bachchan may campaign for his party in the coming Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Wednesday retracted his statement and said he had not made any such suggestion.
"I did not say that he will enter politics. I said that if you continuously keep humiliating someone then he would be compelled to join politics. I gave the example of V P Singh that he single-handedly stood against Congress in exposing Bofors scandal," he said.
On Tuesday in Mumbai, Amar Singh had asked Congress not to "harass" Bachchan so much that his party would be forced to deploy him in the election campaign.
Amar Singh said when Bachchan was in the ICU the government slapped an income tax notice on him.
"If his wife gets elected to Rajya Sabha, the Congress tries to get her disqualified on office of profit issue. When Abhishek Bachchan gets an award (from Uttar Pradesh government), his posters are burnt, he said, adding, "Therefore, I had said that do not instigate someone this much that he his forced to stand against this injustice."
Samajwadi Party chief and UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav came to Amar Singh's help repeating his line on the issue.
He also alleged that Congress had always used Amitabh Bachchan in politics.
Congress spokesman Rajiv Shukla strongly denied the charge saying that neither the Congress party or its government had any such intentions to harass Bachchan nor did they indulgence in such a practice.
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