#Myanmar op: Cong slams ministers’ remarks, asks PM #Modi to counsel them

NEW DELHI: Congress on Thursday came down hard on Union ministers for making “boastful and jingoistic” statements on the Army operation in Myanmar and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give them “mentoring and counselling”.

The defence minister has “foot-in-mouth” disease and is in the “habit” of making “irresponsible” statements, said party spokesman Anand Sharma who also faulted the “56-inch-chest” remark by another Union minister.

“There should be sobriety and maturity. Jingoism and boastful claims are not going to help the operations of India’s special forces,” he said.