NEW DELHI: Often at the receiving end of opposition’s silence jibe, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Monday invoked an Urdu couplet to hit back at his critics.
“Hazaron jawabo se achchi hai khamoshi meri, na jaane kitne sawalo ki aabru rakhe. (My silence is better than a thousand answers, it keeps intact the honour of innumerable questions),” Dr Singh said reciting the couplet, asserting this has been his ‘general attitude’.
The Prime Minister’s remarks came outside Parliament on a day he read out amid din in both the Houses his statement on the controversial coal block allocations.
Taking a jibe at the Prime Minister, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said the questions were so pointed that he would have been embarrassed in answering them and that was why he chose to remain silent. (PTI)