Amar Singh dares Maya to arrest him

NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Monday virtually dared Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to get him arrested. “I will feel happy if I am sent to jail,” he said.

Jail is a nice place and mayawati will do a good service by sending me to jail," singh told cnn-ibn. The samajwadi party mp said he was not afraid of sonia gandhi, cbi, ib or raw and added that a "collective onslaught" of sonia and mayawati was "most welcome".

Singh, who was admitted to a hospital for treatment of a kidney problem, said he was not a criminal that he would leave the country.

Putting up a brave face after sp's battering in uttar pradesh assembly polls, singh said it would have been worse if the party had not worked hard.

He said all leaders inclding bjp top leaders atal bihari vajpayee and l k advani, congress chief sonia gandhi and jan morcha leader v p singh and even sp dissidents were "collectively targeting" his party.

"Had there not been this campaign, things would have been worse," he said. In the just-concluded elections, the sp bagged 97 seats, 46 less than its previous tally.