Our Spl Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Very few people in India might know that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is a vegetarian for life, but the soft-spoken Prime Minister is willing to break his green code, just for a taste of the mouth-watering Bengali delicacy Hilsa.
Dr Singh, who is headed for a two-day visit to Dhaka beginning Tuesday, the first by an Indian Prime Minister since 1999, said on the eve of his visit that he would not mind making an exception for the Bengali dish.
“I am willing to break my vegetarian vow because I have heard about the delicious dish of Hilsa fish,” he said in a lighter vein, during an interview to Bangladesh’s national news agency BSS, on the eve of his much-awaited Dhaka tour.
“I am vegetarian… (but) I am willing to make that exception about my vegetarian status,” he joked.