'Rashtrapatni' remark row: 'Slip of tongue, will apologise to President not to hypocrites', says Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, in the soup for the 'rashtrapatni' remark which he claimed was a "slip of tongue", on Thursday said he will apologise to President Droupadi Murmu but not to "these pakhandis" (hypocrites). He also accused the BJP of making a "mountain out of a molehill" over the issue.