Abhishek Bachchan to contest 2024 polls from Prayagraj? Samajwadi Party rubbishes reviews as mere rumors

Rumours have been doing rounds in UP’s political corridors that Junior Bachchan might contest the Lok Sabha elections from Prayagraj. Abhishek Bachchan may reportedly contest on a Samajwadi Party ticket from the seat. SP management is reportedly gathering suggestions from native leaders on the matter.

However, an SP chief has reportedly denied any such developments saying that there was no such suggestion and the reviews are mere rumors. The Bachchan household is linked to SP with Jaya Bachchan as its MP in Rajya Sabha.

Prayagraj is the birthplace of Big B from the place he too contested on a Congress ticket in 1984 and defeated Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna of Lok Dal. Bahuguna’s daughter, Rita Bahuguna Joshi is at present a BJP MP from Prayagraj.

Amitabh Bachchan had gained with 68% votes whereas Bahuguna received solely 25% votes. 2024 could be a sequel to the 1984 contest if BJP’s Rita Bahuguna Joshi faces Abhishek Bachchan because the SP candidate from the seat.

While SP chief from Yamunapur Pappu Lal Nishad reportedly mentioned it is a mere dialogue, one other occasion chief Saiyyad Iftekhar Hussain mentioned there’s nonetheless time for basic elections. Other reviews say the rumors have been rubbished by Anup Sanda saying that Abhishek Bachchan is neither becoming a member of SP nor contesting on its ticket from Prayagraj.

The Bachchans and their shift from Congress to SP

The Bachchans have been out and in of political circles repeatedly. The ties between the Gandhis and Bachchans return three generations and virtually six a long time.

The ties between the 2 households may be traced again to Amitabh Bachchan’s father, Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan, who labored in India’s Foreign Ministry as a Hindi Officer. Former Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru apparently had excessive regard for Dr Bachchan, which resonated within the household ties as nicely.

Harivansh’s spouse and Amitabh’s mom, Teji Bachchan, turned a detailed buddy of Nehru’s daughter, Indira. As they moved to Delhi, Teji Bachchan labored as a social activist, and her friendship with Indira Gandhi turned deeper.

Their friendship between the 2 households reached its peak when Bachchans lent ethical assist to Rajiv Gandhi within the late Sixties throughout his marriage with Sonia, which Indira opposed. When Rajiv Gandhi was courting the younger Italian woman, Sonia Antonio Maino, Teji Bachchan acted as a mediator between the 2 households as Indira disapproved of their relationship.

In 1968, when Sonia Gandhi arrived in India as Rajiv Gandhi’s fiancee, it was the younger Amitabh Bachchan who drove to Palam airport to obtain her. When the wedding was lastly fastened in 1969, Sonia Gandhi and her household moved in briefly and stayed on the Bachchans’ New Delhi residence at 13, Willingdon Crescent, to find out about Indian customs and traditions from Teji.

The friendship between the 2 households continued all through the following decade. It was speculated then that each households had held wide-ranging discussions relating to Big B’s risk of getting into full-time politics. However, the relations touched a brand new excessive in 1984 when Rajiv Gandhi persuaded Amitabh Bachchan to enter politics and contest the election from Allahabad on a Congress ticket.

Eventually, Amitabh Bachchan was given a Congress ticket in 1984 and gained from Allahabad with a good-looking margin. However, issues began taking a distinct flip within the late Nineteen Eighties when the Bofors scandal was uncovered and lots of, together with Rajiv Gandhi and Amitabh Bachchan, had been alleged to have acquired kickbacks.

This was the turning level when Bachchan began distancing himself from Rajiv to keep away from tarnishing his picture. Three years later, Amitabh stop politics and resigned after a newspaper reported his involvement within the Bofors rip-off.

In 1987, the Bachchan household additionally on board the INS Viraat the place the Gandhi household used the love plane service of the Indian Navy as their private household automobile for his or her holidays in an uninhabited Island of Lakshadweep.

In the early Nineteen Nineties, the connection between households turned bitter after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. The Gandhi household was anticipating Amitabh Bachchan to affix the Congress occasion to help Sonia Gandhi, which he clearly refused, citing his engagements.

Just a few years later, when Big B was in a monetary disaster, he felt cheated by the Gandhi household, who didn’t come to his rescue. The mutual feeling of betrayal received difficult and led to additional occasions of betrayals and rifts, which widened particularly after the Bachchan household’s ties with Amar Singh turned stronger.