Myanmar operation was overt and not covert: Rathore

June 14, 2015 18:24

Defending his stance over Indian Army's surgical strike inside Myanmar, minister of state for information and broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Sunday asserted that the military operation was an overt one and not covert as being described by some factions of the media.

"Some journalists called me saying that I should not have tweeted on chappan inch chaati. In this operation, which was overt, our soldiers were in uniform, TV journalists should know all this," Rathore said.

Rathore received much flak after he put up his comments on Twitter with the hashtag #56inchRocks with the Congress terming it as boastful and jingoistic and also asked Modi to counsel his ministers to avoid chest thumping.

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