Javadekar: Modi gives us freedom

Information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives his ministerial colleagues all the freedom and encourages them to take decisions while adding that “policy paralysis prevalent under the UPA regime” had come to an end under the BJP government.

“He gives us so much freedom and has only one mantra for us — that ‘ you should have the courage to take decisions. Listen to all, but take decisions which are best for the country’,” Mr Javadekar said referring to the Prime Minister.

He dismissed suggestions that the prime minister wielded too much authority over his colleagues or had ticked off a minister for wearing jeans or that there had been any such instances.

“I can show you a picture of Modiji in jeans. We have got the person with the best dressing sense and he will not bar someone from wearing certain clothes. The PMO is not so childish. To imagine such things, it is an unsuccessful attempt to cause damage to his ( Modi’s) image.

But we are directly connected with the people,” Mr Prakash Javadekar said even as he claimed that some people from Congress were spreading misinformation.

The I& B minister clarified that the people of the country had chosen the NDA government for five years and not just hundred days.