Javadekar echoes Goyal's 'Jaya inaccessible' remarks

March 30, 2016 01:54

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar today supported his cabinet colleague Piyush Goyal's remarks that he could not reach out to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa or the state ministers during the last 22 months of his tenure.

"What Piyush Goyal has said is true. That is the experience of people (of the state)," Javadekar, who is also the BJP's poll-in-charge for Tamil Nadu, told reporters.

Goyal in his reported remarks at a meeting in Delhi had said he was unable to meet the Chief Minister or state ministers during the last 22 months of his tenure.

The MoS for Power had reportedly during a speech on 'Making India a Global Economic Superpower' at a conference in New Delhi on March 25, said, "It (Tamil Nadu) is a state within a state and is part of the country where I can't even reach out to the Chief Minister."

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