Before SM Krishna, the Foreign Minister of Portugal had kept his point. After drawing his attention to Krishna’s mistake, Hardeep Singh Puri said that you can start it again.
The year was 2011. The date was 11 February. There was UPA-2 government in the country and SM Krishna was the foreign minister. He had reached the headquarters of the UN to advance India’s agenda for reforming the UN Security Council. The meeting of the United Nations Security Council was going on. During this, when it was his turn to speak, he started reading the speech of Portugal instead of India.
Today, when Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot read out the old budget during his budget speech in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, former Foreign Minister SM Krishna remembered. SM Krishna had made such a mistake that India had to be embarrassed in the UN. CM Gehlot was interrupted by one of his ministers, while SM Krishna was interrupted by an Indian officer 12 years ago.
The Indian officer on whose intervention the former External Affairs Minister corrected his mistake was none other than Hardeep Singh Puri. Former diplomat Puri was then in the role of Ambassador of India in the UN. Puri had pointed out the mistake of reading Portugal’s speech to SM Krishna, then he rectified his mistake.
Portugal’s speech kept reading for 3 minutes
In the debate on Security and Development in the United Nations Security Council, the then Foreign Minister Krishna kept reading the statement of the Foreign Minister of Portugal for three minutes. He did not even realize his mistake while reading the statement of the then Foreign Minister of Portugal, Luis Amado, because the initial part of the statement was on the issue of United Nations, development and security. Although some lines were different in this part also.
When Hardeep Puri interrupted, the Foreign Minister was careful
During this, SM Krishna read out the statement of the Foreign Minister of Portugal, there was a line in it, “Allow me to express my deep satisfaction in view of the happy coincidence of the two Portuguese speaking countries, Portugal and Brazil being together here. .” Since Brazil had recently chaired the UN during that time, SM Krishna did not find it strange.
He read a few lines further. Then Hardeep Singh Puri interrupted him, only then he recovered and then read his speech. After drawing his attention to Krishna’s mistake, Puri said that you can start it again. Before SM Krishna, the Foreign Minister of Portugal had kept his point, so Puri’s attention went towards it and he corrected the mistake of the Indian Foreign Minister.
Uproar due to CM Gehlot’s speech
A mistake in CM Gehlot’s budget speech in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly created an uproar. The opposition even alleged that the government had leaked the budget and the Chief Minister had read the old lines of the budget. On the whole incident that took place before the presentation of the budget, CM Gehlot said that budget leaking is a big incident. On the other hand, by mistake, he said that an extra page had come.
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