Amitabh Bachchan attends pre wedding bash

Amitabh Bachchan attends pre-wedding bash of Mulayam’s grandnephew


Amitabh Bachchan today attended the pre-wedding ceremony of SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav’s grandnephew with RJD chief Lalu Yadav’s daughter in Saifai, Uttar Pradesh.

Bachchan, who boarded a flight from Mumbai, wore a white kurta pyajama with a shawl on his shoulder.

The ‘Shamitabh’ actor entered the ‘Tilak’ ceremony venue with folded hands and was greeted by the host Mulayam.

 

Bachchan, 72, took to Twitter in the morning to inform about his journey.

Amitabh Bachchan tweeted:

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi also attended the event apart from other prominent political leaders.
The Mainpuri MP Tej Pratap Yadav and Lalu’s youngest daughter Raj Laxmi will tie the knot in Delhi on February 26.

Amitabh Bachchan : Invited to Mulayam's grand-nephew's tilak ceremony

 Modi to Amitabh Bachchan: Over 1 lakh invited to Mulayam's grand-nephew's tilak ceremony

A staggering 100,000 invites, including to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have been sent out for Samajwadi Party supremo's grand nephew's on Saturday pre-wedding ceremony in Saifai village where mouthwatering dishes like bedai, baati-chokha and halwa soaked in desi ghee will be served.

Saifai village, some 25 km from Etawah, is buzzing with frantic activity for the 'tilak' ceremony of Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, Lok Sabha member from Mainpuri, who will marry Raj Laxmi, the youngest daughter of former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi, Feb 26 in New Delhi.

Both Modi and mega star Amitabh Bachchan have confirmed their presence, officials said. Mulayam Singh had personally invited Modi for the ceremony.

A team from the prime minister's Special Protection Group (SPG) has already visited Saifai to asses the security scenario, a police official said, adding a rehearsal with an Indian Air Force (IAF) plane landing has also been done at the village air strip.

Also flying down to Saifai on Saturday are a string of Bollywood stars, singers, politicians, state and union cabinet ministers, chief ministers of other states and bureaucrats.

Family sources told IANS that more than 100,000 invites have been sent to relatives, politicians, village folk, journalists, judges and celebrities from other fields. Pakistani singer Adnan Sami, who recently participated in the Saifai Mahotsava, will croon this time too.

Special chefs camped in the native village of the Yadavs, offering mouth watering dishes which includes Gujarati food, traditional UP and Bihari food and also cuisine tailor-made for the Bollywood stars.

Special on the menu would be 'sarrata' (special sour raita), bedai, dahi-ke-aloo, baati-chokha, ulda poorie, paneer filled chola-bhature. Among the sweet delicacies are imarti, jalebi served with chilled rabri, sohan halwa, kulfi and moong ki daal ka halwa soaked in pure desi ghee.

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Amitabh Bachchan denies doing ad film for Narendra Modi

Amitabh Bachchan denies doing ad film for Narendra Modi government

Amitabh Bachchan has clarified that he is not associated with any advertisement film of the Narendra Modi government.

There were reports that the 72-year-old actor would feature in a TV ad which seeks to ask Indians to rise above religion for inclusive development. Bachchan took to Twitter to set the record straight. Bachchan has, however, been the brand ambassador of many government campaigns, including polio eradication, saving the tiger and Swachh India campaign.

Reports of Bachchan featuring in the ad campaign had taken a political colour, with the Congress taking potshots at the government. "Now the crow is imitating the swan's movement. All this camouflaging, all this gimmickry and advertising will not substitute what the government has done on issues like conversion," Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said on Wednesday. 

Singhvi was reacting to questions on media reports that while MoS Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is set to tour areas which have a high minority population, Bachchan has been roped in for an ad film that stresses the need to rise above religion and caste for inclusive development and growth of education. Reports suggested that the advertisement was expected to be out by Republic Day.

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Amitabh Bachchan secular AD minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

 Ghar wapsi: Damage control? Amitabh Bachchan ‘secular’ ad, minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi ‘minority tour’


Even as the RSS and its affiliates continue their ‘ghar wapsi’ programme, a worried NDA government is readying a plan to reach out to the minority population. While Minister of State, Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is set to tour areas which have a high minority population, actor Amitabh Bachchan has been roped in for an ad film that stresses the need to rise above religion and caste for inclusive development. The film is a brainchild of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who personally called up Bachchan.

“It is true that there are misgivings among minority communities about this government. Their confidence has to be won. That will not happen sitting inside the office, it will only happen when you go to them in the field. That is why I have decided to go back to the field — not as a minister but as a political and social activist — to look at how schemes are being implemented on the ground,” Naqvi told The Indian Express.

Starting from Kerala on January 2-3 — the state has a large Christian population, a community which has been at the receiving end of the anti-conversion rhetoric of Sangh leaders — Naqvi plans to “cover at least 60-70 per cent” states before the Budget Session. He also plans to hold a national level consultation in January-end with state minority ministers and the Union Finance Minister to discuss the development issues plaguing the minority communities.

Naqvi has already started one-on-one meetings with the state minority ministers — the first two were with the Rajasthan and Karnataka ministers — and has spoken to some others on the phone. He said he has also sought meetings with minority ministers of other states including West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Assam.

Naqvi claimed the “ghar wapsi” controversy is a temporary furore that will die down as soon as the government engages with people on “real issues” like development. It is a temporary issue that has got precedence by default, he said. “This is what happens if you do not involve people with real issues like development. That is when such a non-issue will dominate. Some people will do this but the development agenda of the government cannot be grounded by such people,” said Naqvi.

Naqvi’s plans may infuse a sense of urgency in the functioning of the Minority Affairs Ministry, which is the only ministry that has not made any announcements or plans since the NDA government took over in May. The post-Sachar evaluation report of the Amitabh Kundu committee was handed over to the ministry in September, but no action has been taken yet.






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Amitabh Bachchan Meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi News

 Amitabh Bachchan Meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi


Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, who is currently in New Delhi, paid a visit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi today.

Soon after the meeting, Mr Modi put up this photograph with Mr Bachchan on his Facebook page.


Big B and Mr Modi, almost identically dressed in a white kurta pyjama and grey shawls, seemed to enjoy their conversation although its not clear what they discussed.

On his return to Mumbai, BigB wrote on Twitter

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4:35 PM - 20 Dec 2014

On October 29, Mr Bachchan swept streets in Mumbai as part of the Swachh Bharat cleanliness drive launched by Prime Minister - Big B had been tagged in the celebrity chain by industrialist Anil Ambani.

 

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