Big B gifts 'Aishwarya' school to Amar Singh

Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has got a special birthday gift from Amitabh Bachchan.

Amitabh gifted a higher secondary girl's school in Barabanki to Amar Singh on Sunday.

The school is called Aishwarya Bachchan Girls Inter-College and is named after the Bachchan daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

And Aishwarya delivered a perfect speech on the occasion.

"I was a little hesitant when the family decided to name the school after me since there are so many other seniors in the family already. I think it would have been more appropriate to name it after them. But now that they have convinced me, I want to ensure that I live up to their expectations," Aishwarya said.

The school is being built in Daulatpur, the same village where Amitabh had earlier bought some land.

A court later ruled that the land had been bought using forged papers but Amitabh got a reprieve from Allahabad High Court.

The inauguration ceremony of the school was converted into a full-blown political event with more than a dash of glamour.

The entire Bachchan clan as well as top United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) leaders like Om Prakash Chautala and Farooq Abdullah were present on the occasion.

Amitabh's gesture comes in the wake of the CNN-IBN story of two girls in Patna who were abandoned by their parents apparently due to poverty.

The two girls have now got their parents back and also been admitted to the school. They, too, were present at the function.