Kettle hotter than tea: Gadkari on ministerial PAs

June 19, 2016 20:50

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday took potshots at the style of functioning of overenthusiastic personal assistants of ministers, saying sometimes the kettle is hotter than the tea.

In a light-hearted banter, Gadkari cited an incident when his PA directed a railway station master to ensure that the train in which he was travelling enters platform number 1, adjacent to the exit.

I was travelling to Nagpur by train. My PA telephoned the station master asking him to see that the train enters and halts at platform number 1 as I had a leg injury. I kept

wondering as this was done without my knowledge, he said speaking at the two day Maharashtra BJP executive meeting which concluded in Pune today.

It is a case of kettle being hotter than the tea, Gadkari said, sending ripples among the delegates, and quickly added that he was not talking about Maharashtra.

"But if this cap (his quip about PAs) fits somebody, consider it as a coincidence, he said, as former Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse, who had resigned in the wake of charges against him that included an alleged bribe taken by his PA, shared the dais with Gadkari.

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