New Delhi: Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has apologized to President Droupadi Murmu for calling her Rashtrapatni in a media interview earlier this week. He expressed his regret in writing on his words against President Murmu, for having mistakenly used an incorrect word to describe the position you hold.

I assure you that it was a slip of the tongue. I apologise and request you to accept the same he wrote in a letter to President Murmu, the country’s first President from the tribal community. The leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, had used the Rashtrapatni remark while talking to reporters during his party’s protests over a host of issues. He claimed that the comment was on account of slip of the tongue due to language barrier that he is a Bengali and not proficient in Hindi which the BJP has punctured as a bad excuse.

When the controversy erupted on Wednesday, he had made it clear he would not apologise to the BJP, but would meet with President Murmu and apologise to her directly a hundred times if she says she was hurt by his remark.