Hyderabad: Speculation is rife that actress-politician Jayaprada, currently a member of Lok Sabha from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, is planning to come back to her home state Andhra Pradesh and join the Congress party soon.
The speculation has been triggered following her meeting with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi last week. "I am returning to AP politics and I will soon announce which party I will join," Jayaprada has been saying in recent days.
She has also expressed her desire to contest the next Lok Sabha election from her hometown Rajahmundry. Sitting Congress MP from Rajahmundry Vundavalli Arun Kumar announced the other day that he would be too glad to make way for Jayaprada....
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07:49 PM, May 01, 2013
The Congress on Wednesday reportedly reprimanded Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma for attacking Mulayam Singh Yadav and asks him not to make personal barbs against Samajwadi Party chief. Meanwhile, Beni Prasad met another Mulayam baiter Amar Singh earlier in the day. ...
03:29 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Maharashtra governor has forwarded politician Amar Singh's letter seeking a pardon for Sanjay Dutt to the state home department. Also, while Shah Rukh Khan won't be able to watch his team, Kolkata Knight Riders perform at Wankhede stadium this IPL, Ranbir Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan took on Virat Kohli's team of cricketers, at a charity football match in the capital. ...
04:20 PM, Apr 02, 2013
The Maharashtra Governor has forwarded expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's letter, seeking pardon for Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, to the state Home Department, a Raj Bhawan spokesperson said on Sunday. ...
08:54 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Maharashtra Governor on Sunday forwarded expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's letter seeking pardon for Sanjay Dutt to Maharashtra State Home Department. The Bollywood actor, who has already undergone imprisonment of 18 months, was sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Supreme Court in 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. ...
02:42 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and Lok Sabha MP from Rampur Jaya Prada today met Maharashtra governor K Sankaranarayanan, to seek pardon for actor Sanjay Dutt. Dutt, who has already undergone imprisonment of 18 months, was on Thursday sentenced to five years imprisonment in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. "Amar Singh and Jaya Prada met the Governor (on the Sanjay Dutt issue) this evening," a Raj Bhawan spokesperson said....
07:49 PM, Mar 26, 2013
The clamour over pardoning Sanjay Dutt in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case is growing each day. While Bollywood is unanimous in asking for a pardon, support is building for the actor in political circles too. ...
09:48 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and Lok Sabha MP from Rampur Jaya Prada have sought an appointment with Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan on Tuesday, apparently to seek pardon for actor Sanjay Dutt. ...
07:34 PM, Mar 25, 2013
A reading chair reclines at a comfortable angle. Spectacles lie within arm's reach. Old teak consoles with black marble tops line the room, which is dominated by book-crammed cupboards. Old frescoes of Hindu gods accentuate the sacred emotion of reading and growing with each book. An old hookah and an ebony-and-ivory chess board add to the personal sense of the space. Thakur Amar Singh could have just left his library...
05:45 PM, Mar 07, 2013
One of the key accused arrested by Delhi Police arrest for trying to access Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Arun Jaitley's phone records was earlier arrested in the Amar Singh phone tapping case. The accused Anurag Singh was arrested along with Nitish by the police which takes the total number of people arrested to four. ...
03:09 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh was admitted to hospital on Monday evening after he fainted at the Dubai airport. Singh was taken to the Welcare Hospital, Dubai, where doctors said that he was critical but stable. ...
09:23 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party on Sunday sought to trash the reports about Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh returning to its fold, saying the speculation was "misleading" and the party has suffered losses due to him and will not repeat the history. SP spokesman Rajendra Chowdhury on Sunday dubbed Amar as a "back stabber who has no ideology." "Saying that we are taking Singh back is nonsense and misleading. While in SP,...
08:33 PM, Nov 04, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday slammed the Samajwadi Party (SP) after the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday withdrew money laundering cases against former SP member Amar Singh. Questioning the criminal justice system, Kejriwal said the SP would next withdraw cases against External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, whose NGO has been accused by the IAC of financial irregularities and misuse of funds. Taking on SP leader...
02:04 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: There seems to be some development in Uttar Pradesh's political circles. A patch-up seems to be in the offing between friends-turned-foes Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh. The Uttar Pradesh government has withdrawn all cases of money laundering against the former Samajwadi Party member. An FIR had been filed against Amar Singh in 2009 during the Mayawati-led BSP regime. The move...
08:21 AM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: From Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to celebrities like Nandita Das and Imtiaz Ali, the Dawat-e-Walima (wedding reception) of star couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor here Thursday saw the who's who from politics and Bollywood in their finery. Dressed in elegant sherwanis and colourful ghararas, lehengas and saris, some of the country's noted personalities attended the grand event,...
11:54 AM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday ordered further probe into the 2008 cash-for-vote scam to "unearth the hidden truth" in the case in which Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh is also an accused. Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal directed police to trace the source of money and conduct the probe from all possible angles and file an additional charge sheet in the case within six weeks. The order of...
02:01 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Once Amitabh Bachchan and Amar Singh were very close friends but the time has changed now. Amar Singh's absence from Amitabh Bachchan's 70th birthday party was noticed by everyone. ...
07:45 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday allowed the police to take voice samples of senior advocate Shanti Bhushan and politicians Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh for further investigation into the controversial CD case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav accepted the Delhi Police plea for securing their voice samples through CFSL experts to ascertain the motive behind creating the CD with their purported conversation on managing a Supreme Court...
07:42 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Tuesday refused to comment on reports of SP MP Jaya Bachchan's demand to change her seat in Rajya Sabha after Bollywood actress Rekha's nomination to the Upper House, saying it was her own 'Silsila'. Rekha took oath as a Rajya Sabha MP on Tuesday. "I don't want to say anything on why Jaya Bachchan changed her seat. It's her own 'Silsila'....
11:44 AM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Congratulating Mulayam Singh Yadav for sweeping UP assembly polls, his former confidant Amar Singh on Wednesday said the electorate preferred the Samajwadi Party's 'immediate' relief like unemployment allowance than his long term plan to divide the state into smaller units for speedy development. Singh's year-old Rashtriya Lok Manch, which had fielded 360 candidates in UP, failed to open its account in the assembly polls. Singh, who had left...
03:17 PM, Mar 07, 2012
