Mulayam, Amar bury their differences

New Delhi: Almost 17 years after the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the Liberhan report is out. The debate in Parliament on the report has been postponed for a week, as Samajwadi Party's Mulayam Singh Yadav and other MPs have been demanding a Hindi copy of the report and Centre's Action Taken Report.

Some say Mulayam's demand for a copy of the report in Hindi is just tactics to divert attention from the unrest within his party as Mulayam's man Friday Amar Singh sulks.

The Liberhan Commission report has been tabled in Parliament but the debate has become a casualty of rivalry between Mulayam and Amar.

From brothers-in-arms to brothers-at-war to being in love with each other again, the Amar Singh-Mulayam Singh relationship is now beginning to resemble the plot of a Bollywood potboiler.

Almost 24 hours after Amar Singh went public with his criticism of the father-son duo of Mulayam and Akhilesh for being overconfident and losing the Ferozabad bypolls, the SP leadership had responded by saying, "Samajwadi Party is a democratic party, everyone is free to voice their opinions."

"These may be his personal views but not the views of the party," another Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav said.

Now the process of rapprochement has also started. Throughout the day on Monday Mulayam and other colleagues tried to placate Amar Singh and it finally ended on a happy note.

"Mulayam Singh and I are two bodies and one soul," said Amar Singh.

"We must introspect about the things raised by Amar Singh," said Mulayam.

Amar Singh has a long list of complaints from not being respected by Akhilesh to not getting sympathy from any of the Samajwadi Party leaders while he was unwell.

But it is also something which has annoyed several party leaders for a long time.

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