Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautions BJP leaders from making needless remarks
New Delhi, Apr 23 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday cautioned BJP lawmakers and leaders that they should not make needless remarks which might provide 'masala' to the media.
In an interaction through the Narendra Modi mobile app, Modi warned his party leaders over making 'masala' remarks in front of the media.
"It might sound bitter but it is important for me to say this to you that sometimes our workers criticise the media. However, we have to think if we committed mistakes and gave masala to the media," Modi was quoted as saying to the BJP leaders.
Modi cautioned that making needless remarks will damage the image of the party.
"If everyone keeps commenting on it then the issue will change and it will damage the nation. It will also affect our image," he said.
In recent times, several BJP leaders triggered controversies with their remarks.
Triggering a controversy, Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb has said internet used to exist during the time of Mahabharata.
Biplab Deb was quoted as saying during a public event by The Economic Times: "India has been using internet since ages. In Mahabharata, Sanjay was blind but he narrated what was happening in the battlefield to Dhritarashtra anyway."
"This was due to internet and technology. Satellite also existed during that period," he said.
Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) Dr Satyapal Singh had earlier triggered a controversy with his remark on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
He said Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution was 'scientifically wrong'.
"Darwin's theory (of evolution) is scientifically wrong. It needs to change in school and college curriculum. Since the man is seen on Earth he has always been a man," he was quoted as saying to media during an event in January.
Indian scientists did not welcome Singh's remarks.
They had drafted a letter against Satyapal Singh's statement.
"We, the Scientists, science communicators and scientifically oriented members of public, are deeply pained by your claim. It is factually incorrect to state that the evolutionary principle has been rejected by the scientific community. On the contrary, every new discovery adds support to Darwin’s insights. One should also note that it is no longer merely a mechanism for organic evolution, but several other evolutionary phenomena in nature," read the letter.
Image: Narendra Modi Twitter page
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