“I’m writing to specific my remorse for having mistakenly used an incorrect phrase to explain the place y u [President] maintain. I guarantee you that it was a slip of the tongue. I apologise and request you to simply accept the identical,” reads his letter.
The Lok Sabha on Thursday had witnessed noisy scenes after BJP members strongly protested towards Chowdhury’s reference to President Murmu as ‘Rashtrapatni’.
Union Minister Smriti Irani accused Chowdhury of disrespecting Murmu and claimed that he had disrespected the whole tribal neighborhood, ladies, poor and the downtrodden by his comment.
She added that Murmu has turn out to be the goal of hatred of the Congress because the opposition social gathering couldn’t “digest” {that a} poor tribal girl has turn out to be the President of the nation. “Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s comment is anti-Adivasi, anti-poor and anti-woman,” she claimed.
Concentrating on Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Irani alleged that Gandhi had “sanctioned humiliation” of a poor tribal girl who has occupied the very best constitutional put up within the nation.
The row continued on Friday and Parliament needed to be adjourned until August 1.
(With inputs from businesses)