Probe Giri remarks against Prez: NCW to Bengal top cop

Nandigram/ Kolkata: The national commission for women on Saturday asked Bengal's director general of police to initiate a probe into the comments by Bengal prisons minister Akhil Giri against President Droupadi Murmu and take appropriate steps.

- Suman Mandal

At a meeting in Nandigram Friday, Giri started off protesting against state assembly opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari's frequent jibes about his looks and suddenly shifted to Murmu: "He says I am ugly. How beautiful are you? We don't judge anyone by their appearance, we respect the office of the President. But how does our President look?" Giri then turned back his attention to Adhikari and his family: "He calls me a half-pants minister. If I am a half-pants minister, then what was your father, an underwear minister? I don't have any minister above me in my department. But your father had."