Responding to suggestions by former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was taking people from home to be his cheerleaders in countries like Myanmar, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the frustrations of Congress leaders are understandable when they failed to draw crowds as Modi at home.
"If UPA leaders during their days in government left the expatriate Indian population underwhelmed, is it to be presumed that this should be true for others?” Jaitley asked.
On Sunday, Khurshid said streets of Myanmar capital Nay Pyi Taw are usually empty, implying that the government might have flown in people from home to be at the event.
(Published 17 November 2014, 21:03 IST)
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