TAKING ON MAYA: The UP government has slapped a notice on Amitabh Bachchan for evading stamp duty.

New Delhi: Actor-turned-Samajwadi Party MP, Jaya Bachchan has taken on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati.

She says Mayawati was targetting her husband, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan to gain cheap publicity.

“It’s just cheap publicity. You will take Amitabh Bachchan’s name and your name will come when the allegations are made so you will get publicity. The media will print whatever Mayawati says and she will gain publicity out of the matter. She says so many things but does not make headlines daily, but if she will attack Amitabh Bachchan, she will hit the headlines,” said Jaya Bachchan.

The UP government has slapped a notice on Amitabh Bachchan for evading stamp duty worth the princely sum of Rs 690 on registration of land bought in Barabanki for a college to be named after his daughter-in-law, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

On Monday, the Supreme Court had rejected the state government’s plea to order an investigation into another of the actor’s controversial land deal in Barabanki.

The UP Government had accused the actor of falsely projecting himself as a farmer to buy the land in question.