“Under our tenure, we have broken the nexus that the middlemen and arms agents had with officials in Defence Ministry,” Parrikar said in an interview. The nexus between the middlemen, arms agents and Defence Ministry officials has been broken, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Friday and termed it as one of the “biggest achievement” of the NDA government. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar highlighted transparency, fast decision- making process and ease of doing business among his other successes. Asserting that “no one can influence me”, the Defence Minister said his decisions are based on merit and what is there on file. Talking about his tenure as Defence Minister, he said the journey so far had been good.

Source: Indian Express May 27, 2016 05:56 UTC