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:I am only interpreting what you are saying?

Amar Singh: You are free to interpret, because you are media. I can't fight with you. Go ahead. But I will simply say that as a representative of the Chief Minister, I went there and I distributed residential plots, I gave Rs 5 lakh compensation, I promised them jobs and I am giving that.

Karan Thapar: So interesting. The audience listening to you will say Amar Singh says, "I went, I did, I gave', but the Chief Minister never went. The Chief Minister didn't think, the Chief Minister didn't give. In fact, the impression the Chief Minister has given is that he doesn't care about Nithari.

Amar Singh: Please, absolutely not. You media is obsessed with what they think and do. I said I went there as a representative of the Chief Minister.

Karan Thapar:It quite clear from your entire response in this interview that you believe that the media have been unfair, that you believe they have been picking and targeting the Samajwadi Party. Why do you think the media have been wrong in their coverage of Nithari?

Amar Singh: First let me answer why Mulayam Singh didn't go. Nobody in the media is asking that there is an ULFA activist in the Congress ministry and in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia areas, five-year-old boy and a pregnant lady have been killed because they are Hindi-speaking people. Soniaji didn't go there.

In Mukhtsar, skeletons of little children were found in a Congress MP's premise and rice mill and he alleged that a rival group headed by Amrinder Singh is responsible for this. Not only this, the Pander guy happens to be married to the nice of former Congress Chief Minister Gill and it is also an established fact that he is a very close friend of the sitting Congress MP from Jalandhar. But the media is not highlighting all these things.

Karan Thapar: You are saying that media is being selective, they are pointing out the worst of Samajwadi Party and they are covering up the worst of the Congress?

Amar Singh: Well, I am not saying. They might not be liking my face or Mulayam Singh's face.

Karan Thapar: Why has the media turned against you? Why has the media turned against Mulayam Singh. Because that's what you are suggesting. Why do you think that's happened?

Amar Singh: I think the chemistry is not gelling. Or our media management is poor or we are not communicable.

Karan Thapar: Do you accept your media management is poor?

Amar Singh:I accept. Had it not been poor, Karan, then they would have talked about Mukhtsar, they would have talked about Gurgaon, which is equally important. 28 people are killed for Rs 5, Rs 10.