For six months: Indian minister takes ‘vow of taciturnity’
I will not speak much. Because if I speak, people start looking for things
PHOTO: AFP
Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, who faces a barrage of criticism over his comments on a wide range of issues, has vowed not speak to the media for six months.
Parrikar, who has been camping in Goa for the last three days, attended a government function in Mandur village, where he was asked to comment on a whole range of issues, including targeted killings in Kashmir’s Sopore town and the Rafale deal.
The former Goa chief minister, who rarely shies away from offering a comment, said he was not going to “speak to the media for six months”.
“I will not speak much. Because if I speak, people start looking for things [in it].”
Parrikar recently stoked controversy with his comments about dealing with terrorism in the country.
In his remarks, that irked the Indian media, the minister said, “You have to neutralise terrorists through terrorists only.”
Published in The Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2015.
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