Ronen Sen to appear before RS Privileges Comt
New
Delhi,
Nov
2:
Indian
Ambassador
to
the
US,
Ronen
Sen
will
appear
before
the
Rajya
Sabha
Privileges
Committee
today
in
connection
with
his
"headless
chickens" comment
to
describe
those
opposing
the
Indo-US
civil
nuclear
deal.
The Rajya Sabha Priveleges Committee is headed by the Upper House's Deputy Chairman K Rahman Khan.
Sen, who had appeared before the Privileges Committee of the Lok Sabha on Thursday, apologised for his 'headless chickens' remark.
Sen told the committee that his remark was not aimed at Parliamentarians and it was off the record comment.
The Lok Sabha committee is unlikely to proceed against him any further.
Sen's remark to a news portal, which was published on August 20, created a furore in the Parliament.
Sen in an interview to Rediff.com had said, "It has been approved here (in Washington, DC) by the President, and there (in New Delhi) it's been approved by the Indian cabinet. So why do you have all this running around like headless chicken, looking for a comment here or comment there, and these little storms in a tea-cup?"
However,
he
later
apologised,
and
said
those
'informal'
remarks
were
meant
to
mean
journalists
and
not
the
politicians.
Earlier,
a
meeting
presided
over
by
Rajya
Sabha
Deputy
Chairman
K
Rahman
Khan
took
the
decision
to
summon
Sen
before
the
Upper
House's
Privileges
Committee.
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee had also referred the issue to the Committee headed by Congress MP V Kishorechandra Deo after receipt of a reply by the External Affairs Ministry.
ANI
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