Jaya Bachchan rules out contesting for Lok Sabha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actress wife of Big ‘B’ Amitabh Bachchan and Rajya Sabha member, Jaya Bachchan, has ruled out contesting in the Lok Sabha elections in future. She explained that her husband was not interested in doing so.

 

She was replying to the question on her chances of contesting from Bhadoi in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. ‘When such a situation had arised once in the past, he asked me to simply sit at home’, said Jaya Bachchan.

 

She said that the re entry of Amar Singh into Samajwadi Party was a closed chapter. Replying to a question, she said that her Samajwadi Party had walked out of Parliament during the voting on FDI issue.

 

The 64-year-old actress had acted in several films and later entered into politics. She was elected to Rajya Sabha two times, both times from Samajwadi Party. She married Amitabh Bachchan in 1973.