Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh died at a Singapore hospital on Saturday. Singh had been undergoing treatment at the hospital for several months and had lately been admitted to its intensive care unit. He was 64.Singh was undergoing treatment in Singapore for kidney-related ailments over the past few months.He had undergone kidney transplant in 2011 and was not keeping well for a long time.
Amar Singh was a key leader in the Samajwadi Party at a time when the party moved to support the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in 2008, after the Communist Party of India withdrew from the government over a nuclear deal with the US.
Singh’s long association with the SP came to an end after he was expelled from the Akhilesh Yadav-led party in 2017.Singh’s prominence as a politician had declined over the years ever since he floated his own political outfit after leaving the Samajwadi Party. He was once considered SP chief Mulayam Singh’s close confidante. He had recently tweeted that he won’t ever return to SP.Singh resigned from all positions in SP on January 6, 2010 and was later expelled from the party.
He was born on 27January ‘1956, Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh In a Rajpoot Family.He completed his LLB from Kolkatta University college of Law.His father name Shri Harish Chandra Singh and mother was Smt.Shail Kumari Singh.His parent’s originally from Aligarh Uttar Pradesh.He married with Smt. Pankaja Kumari Singh.He left behind two daughter’s Drishti Singh And Disha Singh. Shri Arvind Singh a congress leader his brother.
Amar Singh and the Bachchans were very close at one point. But in 2016, their relationship took on strains after Mr Singh went public with his complaints against Jaya Bachchan, a Samajwadi Party leader.
In February this year, Amar Singh released a video expressing “regret” over his behaviour towards Amitabh Bachchan and his family. The former Samajwadi Party leader recorded and posted the video on his Facebook account after receiving Mr Bachchan’s message on the death anniversary of his father.
Amar Singh was first elected to Rajya Sabha in 1996. After he was expelled by the Samajwadi Party in 2010, he was elected to Rajya Sabha again in 2016 as an independent member but with support from the Samajwadi Party, with whom he was seen to have burnt his bridges.
