NCW Summons Cong’s Adhir Chowdhury for ‘Rashtrapatni’ Remark, Asks Sonia Gandhi to Take Motion

Final Up to date: July 28, 2022, 18:58 IST

The reference to India's first tribal president as 'rashtrapatni' has drawn a fresh battle line between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress. (File photo/PTI)

The reference to India’s first tribal president as ‘rashtrapatni’ has drawn a recent battle line between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress. (File photograph/PTI)

The BJP has demanded an apology from Congress president Sonia Gandhi

The Nationwide Fee for Girls on Thursday issued discover to Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to look earlier than it in particular person and tender a written rationalization for calling President Droupadi Murmu ‘rashtrapatni’. The Fee, which scheduled Chowdhury’s listening to for subsequent week Wednesday at 11.30 am, additionally wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to intervene and take applicable motion in opposition to Chowdhury for his derogatory comment.

The reference to India’s first tribal president as ‘rashtrapatni’ has drawn a recent battleline between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) and the opposition Congress. The BJP has demanded an apology from Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

The NCW and 13 state commissions for girls issued a joint assertion, saying Chowdhury’s comment was “deeply insulting, sexist and represent an try and humiliate the Hon’ble President”. “We name upon right-thinking individuals to sentence his phrases within the strongest attainable language,” learn the assertion by NCW Chairperson Rekha Sharma in addition to representatives of 13 state commissions, together with that of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan, current on the quarterly assembly in Visakhapatnam.

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