'Blood sucking' remarks not in connection with FinMin: Jaiswal

March 26, 2012 15:37

Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal, who stirred up a hornet's nest by saying that many government departments are blood suckers like mosquitoes, today clarified that he had not said that in connection with the Finance Ministry.

Blaming the media for putting his statement on the excise duty hike on jewellery in wrong context, Jaiswal said his statement on blood sucking was "in connection with many government departments and not the Finance Ministry."

"Some channels have shown that I have made some comments on the Finance Ministry. It is unfortunate that channels don't show (the correct picture)," he told reporters at the Parliament House complex today.

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