A day after the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) summoned the High Commissioner of Singapore over Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s comment on Indian lawmakers, Congress leader and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor said it was “unseemly” for the MEA to ‘summon’ the diplomat of a friendly country and suggested to be “less thin-skinned”.
On Thursday, India lodged a protest with Singapore over the comments made by its Prime Minister that almost half of the lawmakers in the Lok Sabha have criminal charges pending against them and pointing out a decline in the country’s democratic polity from “Jawaharlal Nehru’s India”.
