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| Ronen Sen in the eye of a storm |
| India's envoy to the US, Ronen Sen, was at the centre of a storm in Parliament on Tuesday over remarks attributed to him,
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| INDIA
, 21-August-2007
10:35:8 AM |
| India's envoy to the US, Ronen Sen, was at the centre of a storm in Parliament on Tuesday over remarks attributed to him, which described MPs as ''headless chickens'' in the context of the Indo-US nuclear deal, but he denied it and tendered an unqualified apology.
In an interview to a Rediffnews.com, Sen said: ''It has been approved here (in Washington DC) by the President and there (in New Delhi) it has been approved by the Indian Cabinet. So why do we have all this running around like headless chickens?''
The envoy went on to say about the Left: ''I am really bothered that 60 years after Independence, they are so insecure that we have not grown up, this lack of confidence and lack of self-respect.''
Sen said if India tried to renegotiate the deal it would have ''zero credibility.''
An embarrassed government expressed regret with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee saying that if the remarks were correct, they were ''totally unwarranted and unacceptable''.
But the MPs united to condemn the undiplomatic remarks made by the Ambassador Ronan Sen. Both Houses witnessed uproarious scenes with the NDA, Left parties and Third Front members flaying Sen's purported remarks with some demanding his immediate recall and admonition.
Mukherjee said he had spoken to the Indian Ambassador in Washington who promptly sent his apology.
The Indian envoy, however, clarified that his remark ''running around like headless chickens'' concerned some of the media friends and not the MPs.
''My comment about running round like headless chickens looking for a comment here or a comment there was a tactless observation on some of my media friends and most certainly not with reference to any honourable MP,'' Sen said in his apology read out in the House by Mukherjee.
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