Over nine years, Indian PM has delivered 1,300 speeches

New Delhi, He may be accused by critics of keeping silent in the midst of a crisis but India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have set a record of sorts by delivering 1,300 speeches during his record tenure in office beginning May 2004, Indian media reported on Tuesday.
Starting June 24, 2004, the PM's website has a faithful record of all of them. Singh has been PM for a little over nine years or around 3,325 days and this means he has delivered a speech at least every third day.
Although Indian PM has hardly addressed a press
conference in the capital, he has not lost many opportunities in making speeches while reserving his detailed interactions to when he travels with a media contingent on a trip abroad.
Usually, his comments during an "on board" press conference provide a window to his reactions to current events ranging from politics, economy to foreign policy.
Perhaps keen to set right the impression that Singh is reticent, the Prime Minister's Office on Monday put out the figure of the number of speeches on micro-blogging site Twitter.
The PMO tweeted, "PM has made 1,300 speeches since he took office in 2004" and also gave a 'link' of his speeches that appear on the prime minister's official website.
These speeches include Singh's number of inaugural and closing addresses at various conferences, organized by different ministries in the past over nine years. They also include his addresses to Congress plenary functions.