The day Harkishen Singh Surjeet died was one day that Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav did not want to concede the Delhi centrestage to Amar Singh. While he was in Lucknow, he made it a point to call back all mediapersons who tried to contact him from the Capital. Amar Singh might have been humiliated by Congresspersons after he went along with Surjeet for the famous 2004 dinner of the UPA, but Mulayam did not forget to remind how Surjeet wanted to make him prime minister after H D Deve Gowda in 1997.