Hooda loses his cool

IN Media Watch Briefs | 14/12/2013

It was tu-tu-main-main of the chief ministerial kind. Quizzed after a morning report on the selection of his relatives to the Haryana civil service, Haryana CM Bhupinder Hooda, lost his temper. "Tu batade..Tu batade konse mere ristedar hai. Ya to nam batde nahi to saval mat kar" (Tell the name of relatives who got selected to the HCS. If you can't tell, do not ask questions.) He also criticised young journalists. "Camera tane thik se pakdna ni ata, saval kare bhari bhari. Ja beta.. Ja beta ja..Thoda tajurba le le." (You do not know how to handle camera and ask big questions. Go my son and get some experience first). (Tribune)

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