Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani on Monday attacked the PMO for what he called attempts to "crush" a foreign correspondent for criticizing Manmohan Singh in an article. In a blog post on Monday, Advani wrote that "stupidity" was a great crime in public life. He held that the episode involving the PMO and Washington Post correspondent Simon Denyer was "a high point of disservice", coming from a man hired to serve the PM. Joining ranks with other commentators who saw the PMO's attempts to respond to the scathing criticism in the article a storm in a tea cup, Advani held that if the Washington Post instance was indeed an attempt to send "a stern signal" to Indian reporters, it had backfired.<br /><br />For more log on to http://www.newsx.com
