Team News Riveting
New Delhi, July 29
Leader of Congress party in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote to President Droupadi Murmu on Friday and urged to accept his apology for using an incorrect word while referring to her post.
Chowdhury explained that it was indeed a slip of the tongue. In a letter to the President, he said that he mistakenly used an incorrect word for her and it was a slip of tongue.
“I am writing to express my regret for having mistakenly used an incorrect word to describe the position you hold. I assure you that it was a slip of the tongue,” the Congress leader said. “I apologise and request you to accept the same,” he said in his letter to the President.
While talking to reporters during party’s protest at Vijay chowk on Wednesday, Chowdhury had used the word ‘rashtrapatni” for President Murmu, that created a row with the ruling BJP raising the issue in in and out of Parliament. BJP grilled Congress President Sonia Gandhi also and demanded an apology.
The BJP launched an all-out offensive against the opposition party, accusing Chowdhury of hurling a “deliberate sexist insult” at President Droupadi Murmu and demanding an apology from Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
