New Delhi: A day after his "lighter and matchbox" remarks created controversy, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapthy Raju today remained unfazed, saying his exemption from frisking at airports should not be taken as a threat to security.
"Civil Aviation Minister is not frisked... I don't think the Civil Aviation Minister of government of India is a threat to aviation either in security or otherwise," he told reporters.
Raju said this when asked for his comments on the controversy generated by his confession that his lighter and matchbox don't get confiscated after he became the minister which was not the case earlier.
"What is the big controversy that it (my comments) has triggered? What is it that I have said...The only difference I find is that my lighter and matchbox do not get confiscated which used happen in the past," the minister said.
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"Civil Aviation Minister is not frisked... I don't think the Civil Aviation Minister of government of India is a threat to aviation either in security or otherwise," he told reporters.
Raju said this when asked for his comments on the controversy generated by his confession that his lighter and matchbox don't get confiscated after he became the minister which was not the case earlier.
"What is the big controversy that it (my comments) has triggered? What is it that I have said...The only difference I find is that my lighter and matchbox do not get confiscated which used happen in the past," the minister said.
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