After his initial outburst at Home Minister P. Chidambaram over the anti-Maoist strategy, Rajya Sabha MP Mani Shankar Aiyar may have suddenly realised that silence is golden.
Amid heat in parliament over the Dantewada massacre, some TV journalists accosted Aiyar, hoping for some juicy comments from the unflappable Congress leader. Apparently under directions from the national leadership to raise all contentious issues only in the party’s internal fora, Aiyar kept smiling till he reached the gate of Parliament House.
Then he opened his mouth to say: “Main kya janoon (What do I know)?” – and slipped away.
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