Feb. 8-18

Arun Jaitley, Union finance minister: Speaks on the Rafale deal, a defence matter, in the Lok Sabha. The stated reason was a Congress leader had raised the Rafale deal during the budget debate. Silent till Sunday evening on the banking scandal

Feb. 15-17

Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister for law and justice, and information technology; Prakash Javadekar, Union minister for human resource development; and Nirmala Sitharaman, minister for defence: All have spoken extensively on the banking scandal in their capacity as “BJP karyakarta (worker)”

Feb. 15-18

Narendra Modi, Prime Minister: Has passed on tips to students on how to cope with examination stress and made public his dream to make those wearing Hawaii chappals take hawai-jahaz (aircraft). Not a word till Sunday evening on one of the biggest banking scams in the country