Amitabh clarifies sea link controversy

Says he had been invited to the event and the controversy is 'manufactured'

Says he had been invited to the event and the controversy is 'manufactured'

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With the controversy over Amitabh Bachchan being the special guest at the opening of four new lanes of the Bandra Worli Sea Link yesterday coming to a head, the actor posted on the blog that he attended the event only because a minister had invited him.

"The Rajiv Gandhi Sagari Setu or the Bandra Worli Sea Link was opening up the remaining four tracks on this massive and symbolic structure that connects two regions of the suburb over the sea. I had been invited by the Minister in the Government to attend and so I went along," Big B posted on his blog.

The controversy arose because it is well-known that after Amitabh left politics, his relationship with the Congress High Command had severely deteriorated. In fact, he has not attended a Congress event in a long time. His recent blog posts praising Narendra Modi of the BJP had also drawn a lot of flak. To top it all, Chief Minister Ashok Chavan insisted that he did not know Bachchan was to be the special guest.

"The media has been hounding me since the event at the sea link has got over through incessant SMSes and the electronic (media) has followed me even to the theatre where we were seeing Arshad' (Warsi)'s film - a fresh controversy has been rapidly manufactured on my involvement in today's event on the sea link," he wrote.u00a0