Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi says ‘Narendra Modi doesn’t need a prompter, script or director’  

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.

Union minister for minority affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi hit back at former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for saying “Prime Minister Narendra Modi was afraid to talk to the media.”

Talking to reporters, on Wednesday, Naqvi said, “He is a senior leader and a former prime minister. When he was the PM, he used to talk on someone’s order and script, even now he is doing the same. He should realize that PM Modi doesn’t need prompter, script or a director.”

During the release of his book – “Changing India” – Singh, on Tuesday, said, “People say I was a silent Prime Minister. I think these (six) volumes (of his book) speak for themselves. I wasn’t the PM who was afraid of talking to the press. I met press regularly and on every foreign trip I undertook, I had a press conference on board or immediately on return.”

Manmohan Singh’s statement mocked Modi, who is yet to host a news conference since taking charge as the prime minister.

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