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Deccan ChronicleKolkata: West Bengal chief minister and Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday condemned her cabinet colleague Akhil Giri's derogatory remarks on President Draupadi Murmu's looks and tendered a public apology over his act on behalf of her party. Breaking her silence under an intense pressure from the BJP and tribal communities three days after the incident, Ms Banerjee said, "We respect and honour the President. The TMC supremo then trained her guns on leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari who is seen in a footage making distasteful comments on her cabinet colleague, Birbaha Hansda, also from the tribal community. In the eleven-second video clip tweeted by the TMC, Mr Adhikari is heard saying, "These people, Debnath Hansda, Birbaha Hansda, who are sitting here, are kids!
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