Rhea Chakraborty News I Rhea Chakraborty’s Arrest Is Not About Keeping Patriarchy Alive: Hardeep Singh Puri [Interview]

New Delhi: Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs (I / C), Civil Aviation (I / C) and Trade and Industry at MoS, said that the way the Sushant Singh Rajput case is unfolding is putting many institutions in the country were tested. I find it to be proof of a strong democracy, he said. In response to whether the arrest of Rhea Chakraborty during the investigation is about keeping the patriarchy alive, Puri said she does not subscribe to the opinion.

“I don’t buy the patriarchy argument. There is a due process to the investigation that is being followed, ”he said. Times now.

Hardeep Singh Puri said that at least two of the three ministries with which he is associated have had frequent discussion and have been proactive in answering questions proactively contrary to popular belief that the government with which he is associated does not take kindly the difficult questions. “There is nothing we are reluctant to respond to,” he told Times Now.

He also spoke about the recent controversy in which some media was seen following actress Kangana Ranaut inside a flight from Chandigarh to Mumbai on September 9 to ask her questions about her fight with the Maharashtra government.

“Some members of the media are drawing a parallel with a comedian who was placed on the banned list after he ‘misbehaved’ on an airplane and asked with those media that people will also be excluded from flights.” “I had nothing to do with it. It is between the airline and the DGCA to take steps in this regard ”, he added.

Puri also said that he made clear his views that there would be zero tolerance in case the comedian and similar rules should apply in Kangana Ranaut being harassed.

Puri, who has been a career foreign affairs bureaucrat in previous periods when asked about the government’s handling of the recent outbursts in Ladakh LAC with China, said: “As someone who has been associated with foreign affairs for four decades, we have a minister who not only understands (of the situation) and has a degree of resolution, conviction and purpose and (therefore, the situation) is being handled as it should be ”.

Speaking about the recent app ban by the Puri government, which is the Ministry of Commerce and Commerce, he said Atmanirbhar Bharat “is not about looking inward or stopping imports, but about diversifying the supply chain.”

In Frankly Speaking today, Navika Kumar speaks with Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs and Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri about the Indochina standoff, the LAC border dispute, the NDA plan, the crisis from COVID-19, the death of Sushant Singh Rajput and much more.