Author:
Publication: The Economic Times
Date: May 17, 2002
Critical of celebrities taking up
advertisement contracts with tainted company Home Trade involved in the
Nagpur Co-operative Bank seam, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh today
said icons like Sachin Tendulkar and Shah Rukh Khan should not hanker after
money by accepting such a contract.
Icons like Sachin Tendulkar and
Shah Rukh Khan should not accept advertisements from firms of doubtful
integrity and should check before they accept the offer, he told the Rajya
Sabha, calling attention on securities scam in co-operative banks.
Rajeev Shukla (of the Loktantric
Congress) immediately retorted that Mr Singh's dose friend and superstar
Amitabh Bachchan too was undertaking such works Amar Singh said Mr Bachchan
was doing it for companies like ICICI and Maruti.
Earlier, Mr Shukla said the co-op
seam was more in the nature of a fraud as the CEO of Home Trade Sanjay
Aggarwal had not even paid crores of rupees he had promised Shah Rukh Khan
and Sachin for doing the company's advertisement. - Agencies
