Nithari not law-and-order problem: Amar

BLAME GAME: Amar Singh said there are many Nitharis are happening in other Congress-ruled states.

      

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Karan Thapar: Let's stick to Nithari.

Amar Singh: I won't. It is very important for me. It may be important for honourable Sonia Gandhi to miss the life of only the Nithari children. But for me as an Indian, Nithari has shed new light on the missing children across the country.

Karan Thapar: You know what people listening to this interview will say? They will say he is deliberately deflecting because Nithari is so embarrassing that he can't address Nithari on its own. So, he is deflecting, he is avoiding, he is trying to circumvent it.

Amar Singh: No, I am not deflecting.

Karan Thapar: Then let's come back to Nithari. You are an honourable politician. I know you want to address the concerns of the people of UP.

Amar Singh: No, you are an honourable journalist, Mr Karan Thapar. You don't concentrate on the issue in focus. I have said that I am embarrassed. I have said I am ashamed. At the same time I am saying Nithari has thrown light on an aspect that children are being harassed, killed, kidnapped, not only in Nithari. In Nithari, we have found it out ...

Karan Thapar: I have given you a chance to say that children are being mistreated, kidnapped and killed all over India. That's granted. Now, let's come back to Nithari, because it's topical, and perhaps because it is one of the worst crime that's being committed in our time.

Amar Singh: You think Mukhtsar is not topical? You think Gurgaon is not topical? You think Mumbai is not topical?

Karan Thapar: Mr Amar Singh, are you deliberately avoiding talk about Nithari? Because that's the impression you are giving people. Are you scared that Nithari is so bad that your government can't face up to the truth?

Amar Singh: Not only Nithari is bad. But you cannot gag me, Mr Thapar. It seems you have got an agenda for Nithari only. I am saying, I am ashamed for Nithari. But in other Congress-ruled states, where many Nitharis are happening, they should also be equally ashamed. There should be CBI enquiries all over.

Karan Thapar: You have made this point three times. I have accepted it. Now, let me come back and point out to you the manner in which the UP Government has handled it. Your minister for PWD, Mr Shivpal Yadav, who also is the brother of the Chief Minister, publicly said that Nithari, where probably 40 children were brutally killed, was a chhoti moti baat.

He then went on to praise the Noida police. You have just criticised them. He praised them. Do you accept that was the wrong response? It was rubbing salt into people's wounds.

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