Hardeep Singh Puri, union minister for housing and urban affairs, tweeted on Wednesday that the Indian government will provide housing and police protection to the Rohingya refugees in Delhi. Just a few hours later, the union home ministry denied there was such a plan. Instead of clarifying, however, that Puri was mistaken, the home ministry blamed the media. Quite unfairly, since news organisations including ANI, Reuters, Hindustan Times, India Today, and Business Standard had merely accurately reported Puri’s statement.
We should add that ANI was one of the first to report on it, saying Rohingya refugees would be given flats – a decision taken after a "high-level meeting" in Delhi.
