"I see that he (Antony) had made the remark with good intention and misinterpreting the remark is not correct," he told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
He said as far as Antony was concerned ,'development' was an important subject for him. Antony wanted that development should come to the state at the earliest since the political climate is favourable as the Congress-led UPA is at the Centre, he said.
A number of defence sector projects was launched in Kerala after Antony became the Defence minister, Ramachandran said.
"It is an opportunity for the Kerala government to introspect. I consider it is an opportunity for correcting, if there are any lapses or mistakes," he said.
Replying to a query, Ramachandran said he had received support from the present Kerala government as well as from the previous LDF government led by CPI(M) veteran V S Achuthanandan for the projects he had brought to the state.
To another query whether the state government was moving at a slow pace, he said "we have a chief minister who does things faster".
At a function in BrahMos unit at Thiruvananthapuram recently, Antony regretted that the atmosphere in Kerala was not conducive for bringing defence sector projects.
Antony went on to say that the situation was much better during the previous LDF regime headed by V S Achuthanandan and he had received total support from it in his endeavour to bring several projects to Kerala.
Seizing on the sharp criticism by Antony of Congress-led UDF government, Achuthanandan yesterday taunted Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, asking him to introspect whether he should remain in office after getting such a "certificate" from his senior colleague.
