Having dinner with PM is apolitical, says Amar Singh

SP General Secretary Amar Singh said that it would not be prudent to say that SP and Congress are friends.

Amidst reports of its growing closeness with Congress, the Samajwadi Party on Thursday said the invitation to it for UPA’s fourth anniversary celebrations marks a ‘minimum political civility’ between the two sides but made it clear that it would not ditch its UNPA friends or the Left.

“It will not be prudent to say that SP and Congress are friends. It will not be proper to say that we are enemies. Minimum political civility and minimum required communication is about to begin,” SP General Secretary Amar Singh told CNN-IBN, when asked about the invitation to dinner at the Prime Minister’s house.

Singh said, “…we are not going to desert our colleagues like Chautala, Chandrababu Naidu and above all our Left friends. And today’s dinner is from Prime Minister, who is a Constitutional Authority. A dinner from Prime Minister should be considered as apolitical.”

“By attending this dinner, it does not mean that we are supporting the price rise, inflation or the nuclear deal,” Singh said.

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