Amar Singh resigns as SP General Secretary

Amar Singh resigned as General Secretary and from other posts in the Samajwadi Party citing “health reasons” amid speculation over deepening differences with party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Singh,who is in Dubai,said over phone that he has resigned as national General Secretary,Spokesman and member of the Samajwadi Party Parliamentary Board. He faxed his resignation from all the three posts to Yadav,he said.

“I have resigned from all the three posts with immediate effect and I have faxed my resignation to Mulayam Singh Yadav,” said the 54-year-old high-profile spokesman of the party.

Shortly after the party’s humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha by-election in Firozabad in November,Singh had criticised Yadav,saying the defeat was because of the over confidence of the SP chief and his family.