Manohar Parrikar said those who blabber unnecessarily should dance naked to get publicity.
In a jibe at chronic critics, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said his advice to those who "blabber needlessly" to get publicity might as well take-off their clothes and dance naked.
Mr Parrikar, who was attending a BJP meeting on Monday at Sattari, north Goa -- 40 km from capital Panaji - had broached the subject of criticism following sharp words from a section of the Goan media.
Referring to the editor of a vernacular newspaper, he said in 1968, after the Watergate scandal was unravelled in the US, the man had written a large editorial giving advice to President Richard Nixon.
"Now, how could an editorial written by him in Marathi reach Nixon? He is in America," Mr Parrikar said. "Some people do not know their limits. They keep on blabbing. I'm giving them some advice. Take off your clothes and dance naked. That way you will get more fame."
The "international-level editor" Mr Parrikar said, had been "brought here in his old age". "His newspaper had a sale of 1,000," the Defence Minister said.
Ahead of next year's assembly elections in Goa, the opposition had regularly criticised Mr Parrikar. His jibe at actor Aamir Khan had drawn widespread criticism on the social media.
In October, the Goa BJP's plan to accord a hero's welcome to Mr Parrikar - a former Chief Minister of Goa -- for choreographing the surgical strikes on terror launchpads across the Line of Control came under sharp criticism from the opposition, the BJP's alliance partners as well as the civil society.
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With inputs from agencies)