Hard-working squirrels

During a recent interaction with the media, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, said the Narendra Modi-led government worked like a bunch of "squirrels" - every minister worked in his own small way, but together they were taking the country in the direction of "double-digit growth". Taking a swipe at Rahul Gandhi's recent remark that the Modi regime was a "suit-boot ki sarkar", he said, "When Draupadi was being humiliated by the Kauravas in full view of senior members of the family, they did nothing but sit and watch. We are being tagged by some people as the 'suit-boot' government but let the country know the real face of these people." He went on to advise the media to have faith in the government's work and not make "headlines out of everything".