On August 27, 2012, the opposition BJP stopped Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from making a statement in the Lok Sabha on the allocation of coal blocks. Outside Parliament House, he answered reporters with an Urdu couplet, in the wording reported by India TV: Hazaaron jawabon se achchhi hai meri khamoshi, na jaane kitne sawaalon ki aabru rakhe. My silence is better than a thousand answers. It protects the honor of who knows how many questions.
Sushma Swaraj, the BJP leader, replied that an answer would have drawn so many pointed questions that he would have lost his honor.