New Delhi: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on last day gave a cold shoulder to Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam who waited at her office on Tuesday.
Denying certain media reports that the two met, Sitharaman's office tweeted, 'Deputy CM of Tamil Nadu, Shri O. Panneerselvam has not met Smt @nsitharaman.” The tweet tagged Panneerselvam and V Maitreyan, an AIADMK Rajya Sabha MP, who had a scheduled appointment with Sitharaman and met her.
While speaking to the media after the visit, Pannerselvam told reporter that he had come to personally thank Sitaraman for sending a defence owned air ambulance during a medical emergency of his brother. However, a senior AIADMK leader in Delhi said the Defence Minister was perhaps irked with Panneerselvam for having made this information public.
