President's remark on Bofors triggers row on trip-eve

May 28, 2015 09:20

India has objected to a Swedish newspaper printing the comments of President Pranab Mukherjee on the Bofors controversy centred on whether politicians took kickbacks in exchange for buying artillery guns made in Switzerland.

The Indian ambassador to Sweden, Banashri Bose Harrison, has said in a letter that "it was both unprofessional and unethical on your part to include in the report an off-the-record correction by the President after the interview had ended, about a slip-of-the-tongue during the interview."

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