The Trinamool Congress MLA who had on Saturday made vile remarks at a Marxist colleague in the House have expressed her apology saying what she said was a slip of tongue and that she did not intend to denigrate the personal prestige of the other MLA.
According to sources TMC MLA from Memari Nargis Begum said “I unconditionally apologise for the particular choice of a word which was a slip of tongue… I apologise if I have hurt someone by the said remark.”
Begum had reacted to CPI(M) MLA from Jamuria, Jahanara Khan’s repeated raising of the issue of rising crime against women in the State hurling a ‘four-letter-word’ at her.
Subsequently Speaker Biman Banerjee reprimanded the erring MLA after receiving a complaint from the aggrieved Legislator and the CPI(M) leadership in the House. Begum was also pulled up by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partho Chatterjee,, his Cabinet colleague Tapas Roy and Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim.
The comment was later expunged from the record of proceedings of the House.