Claim
Amar Singh went to jail over the cash-for-votes affair, and in an interview with the anchor he said he did everything to save the Congress government and was repaid by being put in jail.
“अमर सिंह उसके लिए जेल में गए थे और अमर सिंह ने मेरे इंटरव्यू में बोला कांग्रेस की सरकार बचाने के लिए मैंने क्या कुछ नहीं किया और मुझे सिला यह दिया कि मुझे जेल में डाला।”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
Amar Singh was indeed arrested on 6 September 2011 and lodged in Tihar jail in judicial custody over the 2008 cash-for-votes affair, in which he was accused of arranging bribes for MPs to save the Congress-led UPA government in the trust vote. He also repeatedly said in on-record interviews that he had saved the government and was repaid with a chargesheet and jail. The one unverifiable detail is whether he said this specifically in Amish Devgan's own interview, but the substance matches his well-documented public statements. Minor caveat: he was jailed in pre-trial custody and later discharged, never convicted, which the claim does not assert anyway.
Evidence
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2011/9/6/indian-mp-arrested-over-bribery-scandal Amar Singh was arrested in September 2011 and remanded to judicial custody in Tihar jail in connection with the 2008 cash-for-votes scandal, in which he was accused of bribing opposition MPs to back the Congress-led UPA government in the confidence vote over the Indo-US nuclear deal. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.moneylife.in/article/amar-singh-2-former-bjp-mps-sent-to-tihar-jail-in-cashforvotes-scam/19496.html Contemporary report confirming a Delhi court sent Amar Singh to Tihar jail in the cash-for-votes scam. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://scroll.in/article/830425/amar-singh-interview-akhilesh-yadav-and-rahul-gandhi-have-signed-a-lose-lose-deal-in-up In a 2017 interview Amar Singh said the Congress 'took my support first and then to save themselves, they chargesheeted me' — matching the sentiment the anchor attributes to him, which he expressed repeatedly across interviews. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-votes_scandal Background on the July 2008 trust vote: Amar Singh's SP support saved the Congress-led UPA-I government after the Left withdrew, and he was later charge-sheeted and briefly jailed in the case. ✓ reachable · archived