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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Amar Singh: It was bad articulation. And only one segment of the statement was broadcast and rightfully so. He should have been careful. But let me tell you, he didn't mean it. I am being very frank.

Karan Thapar: I didn't mean it, but he said it.

Amar Singh: No. The entire reference has not been shown. He said what I am saying. I am saying it is happening all over the country.

Karan Thapar: But you agree it was bad articulation?

Amar Singh: It was a bad articulation and it was selective when it was shown.

Karan Thapar: But was he wrong in describing it as a chhoti-moti baat?

Amar Singh: No, it's not a chhoti-moti baat. It was bad articulation, at best I would say.

Karan Thapar:Go further. Was it wrong to call it a chhoti-moti baat, to try and dismiss it as something small and insignificant?

Amar Singh: No. The fact is he didn't dismiss it.

Karan Thapar:Was the phrasechhoti-moti wrong?

Amar Singh: No, I don't think he meant that.

Karan Thapar: Are you in a sense, therefore, not just correcting what he said, you are almost apologising for the fact he gave the wrong impressing to people?

Amar Singh: I am not apologising. I am simply saying that he is not media-savvy and his entire context was not shown. And media is well within its right to pick and choose whatever they found more newsy.

Karan Thapar:All right. One other quick question before I leave Nithari. Three weeks have passed and even until today, the Chief Minister has not gone to Nithari.

Does Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav not feel a need to be of some comfort to parents who have lost their children, to reassure them that justice is being done and comfort them that police have mishandled it but we will now handle it properly? Has he not felt the need to reassure them personally?

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Amar Singh: I may not be the Chief Minister...

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