Parrikar went on to say that his team is very smart and keeps a track of such incidents. Parrikar went on to say that his team is very smart and keeps a track of such incidents.

After facing strong criticism for his comments that those who speak against the nation should be punished, an indirect reference to actor Aamir Khan, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said his words didn’t specifically point towards anyone.

“I am just saying that we should mount pressure, verbally condemn people who speak against nation. I didn’t specifically pointed out at anyone,” said Parrikar.

Earlier on Saturday, at a ceremony to launch the Marathi edition of a book by journalist Nitin Gokhale, Parrikar had said “When the actor did this… then the company which he was endorsing was… an online trading company. Some of our people are very smart, I know. There was a team which was working on this. They were telling people you order and return it… The company should learn a lesson, they had to pull his advertisement.”

Parrikar took no names. But in November 2015, at the Ramnath Goenka Awards, actor Aamir Khan had spoken about a “sense of insecurity” resulting from increasing intolerance in the country, and mentioned his wife Kiran Rao’s apprehensions about the future of their child in India.

A few months later, e-commerce giant Snapdeal, for which Khan was brand ambassador, did not renew his contract. Snapdeal had earlier faced a strong backlash on social media, with many customers uninstalling their app.

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