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Congress dumps people: Jaya Bachchan

NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan on Monday accused the Congress party of using people and dumping them later.

"I feel that Samajwadi Party leaders Mulayam Singh and Amar Singh are the kind of leaders who stand by you, but the Congress doesn't stand by anybody. They use you and dump you," she told NDTV in an interview.

Asked if she was referring to an individual or the Congress party, she said: "I don't mean any individual but the party."

She was responding to a question on the defining moment that led to her joining the SP.

Mrs. Bachchan said not many people in the Congress stood by them [Bachchan family] during the Bofors controversy that had broken out in the late 1980s.

"Did anybody from the party [Congress] speak up, and what is going on today," she said.

Mrs. Bachchan said she felt guilty whenever she went to the city of Allahabad, where her husband Amitabh Bachchan was born, as they could not do much for its people after coming back from Mumbai in 1984.

"There is a little bit sense of guilt. The guilt is that we wanted to do a lot for the Allahabad people after returning from Mumbai in 1984 but we could not do so,'' she said, apparently referring to the sudden resignation of Amitabh Bachchan from the Lok Sabha seat (Allahabad) amid the Bofors controversy. — PTI

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