Article: Amar Singh gets poetic about meeting with Sonia

Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication.

New Delhi, July 7 -- Political crises can also inspire poetry. Ask Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, who used the words of an old Hindi film song to describe his meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

"Na tum bewafa the, na hum bewafa the, magar kya kare hamari kismat juda thi. (Neither were you unfaithful, nor were we. But what can we do, it was just our fate that we parted)," Amar Singh said when asked about his "interaction" with Gandhi last week.

The assembled crowd praised him after the flowery poetry, and Amar Singh smiled widely. He was unstoppable after that as he churned out one verse after ...

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