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Amar Singh, Jayaprada join Ajit Singh's RLD

New Delhi: Ending months of speculation, expelled SP leaders Amar Singh and Jaya Prada today joined the Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal ahead of Lok Sabha polls.Singh is tipped to contest Lok Sabha polls from

Actor-turned-politician Jaya Prada said Ajit Singh always used to support her and she and Amar Singh will do everything to strengthen the party.

"We have no personal fight with Narendra Modi or BJP. Rajnath Singh is my friend as well.

"There are ideological differences in politics. Is it some kind of gang war?" Singh said when asked why he was joining an anti-Narendra Modi alliance when there is a talk of a wave in favour of the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate.

However, he hastened to add that "the politics of BJP is not in my DNA."

Jaya Prada, who is an MP from Rampur Lok Sabha seat, was brought into Samajwadi Party with the efforts of Amar Singh, who was then the party General Secretary and was a close confidant of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. With the fall of Amar Singh in the party, her fortunes too had begun to fall.