My Silence Is Better Than A Thousand Answers: Manmohan Singh

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[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][size=4]NEW DELHI: Often at the receiving end of opposition's silence jibe, Prime Minister[/size][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manmohan-Singh"]Manmohan Singh[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][size=4] today invoked an Urdu couplet to hit back at his critics. [/size][/font][/color]

[i]"Hazaron jawabo se achchi hai khamoshi meri, na jaane kitne sawalo ki aabru rakhe. [/i][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][size=4](My silence is better than a thousand answers, it keeps intact the honour of innumerable questions)," Singh said reciting the couplet, asserting this has been his "general attitude". [/size][/font][/color]

[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][size=4]"It has been my general practice not to respond to motivated criticism directed personally at me," he added. [/size][/font][/color]

[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][size=4]The Prime Minister's remarks came outside[/size][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Parliament"]Parliament[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][size=4] on a day he read out amid din in both the Houses his statement on the controversial coal block allocations. [/size][/font][/color]

[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][size=4]But the Prime Minister's way of sending a message across on his silence did not convince BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition in the [/size][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lok-Sabha"]Lok Sabha[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][size=4] [/size][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sushma-Swaraj"]Sushma Swaraj[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][size=4]. [/size][/font][/color]

[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][size=4]Taking a jibe at the prime minister, Sushma said the questions were so pointed that he would have been embarrassed in answering them and that was why he chose to remain silent. [/size][/font][/color]

[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][size=4]"Really the questions were so harsh and straightforward that by answering them he would have embarrassed himself and that's why you(prime minister) preferred to keep silent," she added. [/size][/font][/color]

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The jaffest Prime minister ever in this world.