Big B in trouble over Ash's college at Barabanki LKO
Superstar Amitabh Bachchan has landed up in a new controversy as he has been accused of violating an agreement to build a girls' college in Barabanki, UP. The college was announced by the superstar in January, 2008 and he had said it would be named after his daughter-in-law, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
This is not the first time that this land has caused trouble for Bachchan. He was taken to court on the charges that Mulayam Singh Yadav had illegally allotted this land to him. The allotment was cancelled in court. Bachchan then bought land from local farmers in the area to set up the college.
But now, Bachchan has reportedly re-gifted parts of that land to an NGO run by actor Jaya Prada, who's also a Samajwadi Party MP. The village head for Daulatpur accuses Bachchan of fraud and of re-gifting the land. The complaint also says that after an elaborate ceremony for the laying of the foundation stone, no progress has been made in constructing the college. Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya, Jaya Bachchan, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh had all attended the inauguration ceremony.