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The reference to India’s first tribal president as ‘rashtrapatni’ has drawn a contemporary 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 National Commission for Women on Thursday issued discover to Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to seem earlier than it in individual and tender a written clarification for calling President Droupadi Murmu ‘rashtrapatni’. The Commission, 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 acceptable motion towards Chowdhury for his derogatory comment.
The reference to India’s first tribal president as ‘rashtrapatni’ has drawn a contemporary battleline between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (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 constitute an attempt to humiliate the Hon’ble President”. “We call upon right-thinking persons to condemn his words in the strongest possible 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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