NEW DELHI: India has complained to Singapore approximately a commentary its top minister made on the range of Indian parliamentarians going through crook prices, an Indian professional said on Friday, in an extraordinary example of friction between the Asian allies.


Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made the remark in Singapore’s parliament on Wednesday throughout a debate about accusations of lying levelled at a member of Singapore’s competition.


Lee, regarding parliamentary standards, stated India, suggesting a decline there on account that its first prime minister after independence from Britain in 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru, became in fee.


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“Nehru’s India has grow to be one in which ... Almost half of the MPs within the Lok Sabha have crook expenses pending in opposition to them, along with fees of rape and homicide,” Lee stated, referring to India’s decrease house of parliament.


He did add, but, that among the charges were politically prompted.


Indian media reported that Singapore’s ambassador have been summoned to the overseas ministry to give an explanation for.


The Indian ministry declined to remark but an authentic there criticised what the Singapore leader stated.