Can Amitabh become the new kingmaker of politics?

These days, when all eyes are on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the entire opposition (I.N.D.I.A.) is united in the debate to find leadership, it is noticed that there is one person who maintains good rapport with everyone. The person whom all the leaders of power and opposition agree to listen to is from Bollywood...the megastar of the century Mr. Amitabh Bachchan!

At present, most of the senior MPs and senior leaders of the country are friends of Amitabh. It is a different matter that Big B has kept himself away from politics. But let us assume that if he takes interest, he can definitely take the place of 'King Maker' in the background of central politics.

Let us see how many prominent leaders of the country are his friends. In which unit of the ruling and opposition party does he not have his supporters and friends? Let's talk about the ruling party. When leaders from Delhi and other states of the country come to Mumbai, they all want to visit Amitabh's bungalow 'Jalsa'. Even though the world sees Bachchan as the face of government advertisements, he does not give importance to anyone except the Prime Minister. It is a who's who affair among the opposition parties. Big B has an old relationship with Congress and Congressmen. Simply, the layers of dust lying on the relationship have to be removed by shaking them off. He was once a darling of the Nehru-Gandhi family and won the elections from Allahabad on a Congress ticket and defeated Strong leader Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna. And then he said goodbye to politics. Today, again an effort has to be made to resolve the rift between brother-in-law and sister-in-law.

His friendship with the Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo, late. Mulayam Singh/Akhilesh Yadav and the late Amar Singh family are well known. The female head of the Bachchan family, Mrs. Jaya Bachchan, is still an MP from the same party. He has a close relationship with BSP supremo Mayawati and Trinamool Congress supremo and Chief Minister of Bengal Mamata Banerjee. The people of Bengal call him son-in-law. Kolkata MP Babul Supriyo and Moon Moon Sen are such names who keep talking to Big B on the phone in Bengali. South's political influencers Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Chiranjeevi, and Mohan Lal consider themselves Big B's brothers. Rajinikanth considers Amitabh as his mentor and is also shooting together these days. Everyone knows that Rajinikanth has the power (fan following) to change the dynamics of southern politics and all the leaders listen to him. Be it Maharashtra's political guru Sharad Pawar or Shiv Sena chief late. Bala Saheb Thackeray's son and former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, his cordial relations with the Bachchan family are not hidden from anyone. Be it Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav or Shatrughan Sinha, or Delhi/Punjab Chief Minister Kejriwal - Bhagwant Singh Mann, Sidhu, Raghav Chadha, all are friends of Amitabh. MPs from the film industry, whether in power or in the opposition - Hema Malini, Jaya Prada, Sunny Deol, Manoj Tiwari, Ravi Kishan, Dinesh Lal Nirahua or both the actresses MPs from Bengal or Bachchan devotee MPs like Prakash Raj from South India - MLAs are all theirs. Let's talk. 'Call Bachchan and he doesn't come...' Only Big B has this honor.

The meaning is that Amitabh is that source which is not everywhere. If he calls and invites, then all the leaders and actors will not refuse to come to one place on his invitation. The remaining work is of 'leadership', for which there is no dearth of strong men. Bachchan can give them the stage. He can become a 'kingmaker'. In view of the 2024 elections and I.N.D.I.A. In view of this, it is a perspective... and that's it!

- Sharad Rai