Missed brouhaha on visa tweet: Tharoor

A day after he was publicly chided by senior minister S.M. Krishna, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said he has missed “brouhaha” on the issue.

A day after he was publicly chided by senior minister S.M. Krishna, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said he has missed “brouhaha” on the issue.

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The Congress on Tuesday backed Krishna’s statement with AICC General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi saying, “Whatever the party had to say, it had expressed its opinion earlier (when it had disapproved the remarks of Tharoor terming the economy class as cattle class). S.M. Krishna has already spoken about it. We have nothing more to add.”

Krishna had on Monday rebuffed Tharoor for questioning the tightening of visa rules and asked him to discuss his “perceptions” within “four walls” of the government rather than in public.

In his latest post on the social networking website, Twitter, Tharoor says, “Was travelling out of range & missed brouhaha. Now that EAM (External Affairs Minister) Krishnaji, whom I respect, has spoken, I hv (have) nothing 2 (to) add. Will discuss visa issue w (with) him.”

Speaking at a separate venue, Congress MP Satyavrat Chaturvedi took a jibe at Tharoor saying “old habits die hard” and that “he will slowly understand the political culture”.