Panchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee said “I feel ashamed to think that he was a minister in the erstwhile Left Front government. People will know whom they have sent to the assembly. Does he not have sisters at home?” Counsel for Trinamool Congress, Rajdeep Majumdar, told PTI that a legal notice would be sent to the CPI(M) headquarters and to the CPI(M) leader seeking an unconditional apology within 48 hours.
“If the apology is not tendered, we will file a defamation suit before the appropriate court,” Majumdar said.Rahman, however, later in the evening tendered an apology for his remarks.
“For the last 21 years I have been an MLA in the state. I have never said anything like this before and this will not happen again in future. I apologise before all the people of the state,” Rahman, deputy leader of the CPI(M) in the House, said reading out a statement before the media and leaving without taking any question.
