NEW DELHI
\nSenior Congress leader, Shashi Tharoor said it was most unseemly for the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to \u201csummon\u201d the envoy of a friendly country like Singapore over remarks by their prime minister to their own Parliament, and asserted that \u201cwe must learn to be less thin-skinned\u201d.
\nTharoor\u2019s remarks came after India lodged a strong protest with Singapore over the comments made by its Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that almost half of the lawmakers in the Lok Sabha have criminal charges pending against them and suggesting a decline in the country\u2019s democratic polity from \u201cNehru\u2019s India\u201d.
\n\u201cMost unseemly for MEA to summon the HC of a friendly country like Singapore over some remarks by their PM to their own Parliament,\u201d Tharoor said in a tweet.
\n\u201cHe (Lee) was making a general (& largely accurate) point. Given the stuff our own pols utter, we must learn to be less thin-skinned!\u201d the former minister of state for external affairs said.
\n\u201cWe should have handled the matter with a statement saying \u2018we heard with interest the PM\u2019s remarks. But we don\u2019t comment on other countries\u2019 internal matters, nor on debates in foreign Parliaments, & urge everyone to follow the same principle.\u2019 Far more effective & less offensive,\u201d Tharoor said in another tweet.
\nSingapore\u2019s high commissioner to India Simon Wong was called to the Ministry of External Affairs and he was conveyed that the comments were \u201cuncalled for\u201d and that India objected to them strongly, according to reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI Senior Congress leader, Shashi Tharoor said it was most unseemly for the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to \u201csummon\u201d the envoy of a friendly country like Singapore over remarks by their prime minister to their own Parliament, and asserted that \u201cwe must learn to be less thin-skinned\u201d. Tharoor\u2019s remarks came after India lodged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n