'I understand Hindi': Sitharaman upset with reporter's 'sarcastic' query on surgical strike

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took offence Friday at what she described as the "sarcastic tone" of a reporter's question about the 2016 surgical strikes carried out by the Army on terror launch pads across the LoC.

During a press conference here, a reporter asked her as to why the NDA government was "tom-tomming" the operation two years later.

"I got hurt by the way...in a very sarcastic tone you asked the question," an upset Sitharaman said. "The word you used....'bin bajaye (tom-tomming)...I understand Hindi...."