PM: Proud Abhinandan, Nirmala are from Tamil Nadu

March 01, 2019 15:51

PM Narendra Modi plays the regional card while in the state to inaugurate developmental programmes. In Kanyakumari, the PM said," Every Indian is proud that the brave Wing Commander Abhinanadan is from Tamil Nadu. I am also proud that India's first woman Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is from Tamil Nadu."

This is the first time the PM has mentioned the Wing Commander in Pakistan custody directly by name. He did make a quip yesterday, at a science award function where he said, "You are folks who spend your lives in a laboratory, and are used to conducting pilot projects. A pilot project is followed by scalability. Now a pilot project has been completed. Now we have to make it real. Earlier it was just a practice session".

The 'pilot project' remark did not go down well with several people pointing out it was tasteless.

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