File photo of Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives his ministerial colleagues operational freedom and encourages them to take decisions, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said today.
"He gives us so much freedom and has only one mantra for us -- 'You should have the courage to take decisions. Listen to all, but take decisions which are best for the country," Mr Javadekar said.
Opposition parties have seized media reports to accuse the PM of running the government out of his own office and forbidding ministers from speaking to the media. Mr Javadekar dismissed those reports - including one that suggested a minister had been castigated by the PM for being spotted in public in jeans.
"I can show you a picture of Modiji in jeans. We have got the person with the best dressing sense and he will not bar someone from wearing certain clothes. The PMO is not so childish," Mr Javadekar said.