Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Jamia encounter is fast turning out to be a political headache for the UPA. Its ally, the Samajwadi Party, is openly criticising the government over the Jamia encounter.
Soon after Samajwadi party leader Amar Singh threatened the government on the Jamia encounter case, the Congress leadership was quick to express their displeasure.
“Amar singh has no idea about the issue, no understanding of politics, he has sick mentality,” said Congress’ Satyavrat Chaturvedi.
With differences out in the open, it needed SP chief Mulayam Singh to step in to administer some damage control.
“Amar Singh was misquoted. He said he didn't mean that,” he said.
Amar Singh, too, reacted to the statement. “A working committee member asked me to get a mental check up done. My relationship with Dr Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi is intact. I just met the doctor and he told me that my disease is my concern for minorities. This will be taken care of,” he said.
While the Samajwadi Part had supported the Congress with 36 MPs in the Lok Sabha in the crucial trust vote in Parliament, the two parties have not been on the best of terms since.
First with bad blood between the two over the defection of SP MLAs in Madhya Pradesh to the Congress, then the still to be sorted out issue of seat sharing in UP, and now the stand taken by the SP on the Jamia encounter has caused some embarrassment to the Congress.
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