Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is known to digress from the prepared text of his speeches, and last week he did so again, this time offering a silver lining – quite literally!
At the awards ceremony for best performing states in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) last week, he said he had specially ordered the prize trophies to be made of silver and the winners should carry them along.
“These are pure silver, don’t throw away, take then home,” he said. As Azad made his interjection about pure silver, even Vice President Hamid Ansari, who was the chief guest of the event, couldn’t stop smiling.
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