New Delhi, Apr 1(ANI): Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan today accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of seeking cheap publicity by indulging in mudslinging against her husband and Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan.
Jaya urged the media to be fair in its reporting, and not to be biased. She claimed that Mayawati's name was not even published when she did something.
Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh remarked that Amitabh Bachchan was being drawn into unnecessary controversy and termed it a bad joke.
On Monday, after the Supreme Court had issued a clean chit to Bachchan in the Barabanki land deal case, the Assistant District Magistrate (Finance) of Barabanki, Shrish Dubey, had issued a notice to him for undervaluing the stamp duty on a plot of land that he bought in the area.
Dubey claimed that the cost of the land was Rs 843,639, but it was shown as Rs 6000 less, and accordingly, the actor paid Rs 695 less as stamp duty.
Amitabh's lawyer Pradeep Roy dismissed the charge of paying less stamp duty as "baseless" and alleged it was an attempt to malign Bachchan's image. A defamation suit would be filed, he added.
The plot was purchased by Amitabh during the rule of Mulayam Singh Yadav in UP, and on January 27 this year, he laid the foundation stone of a girls' college there, naming it after his daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai. (ANI)
