New Delhi: The National Commission for Women and 12 state commissions for women on Thursday (July 28) criticised Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for calling President Droupadi Murmu ‘rashtrapatni’ and said the remark is deeply insulting and sexist.“National Commission for Women and all the State Commissions for women who were present in quarterly meeting at Visakhapatnam condemned the derogatory and sexist remark made by @adhirrcinc against President of India. @ncwIndia is sending him summons,” NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma said on Twitter.The 12 state commissions include those from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, UP and Tripura, she said.Sharma tagged a joint statement along with her post. “The National Commission for Women and all the State Commissions for women strongly condemn Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s (MP) words where he has called the Hon’ble President of India ‘rashtrapatni'”.“His words are deeply insulting, sexist and constitute an attempt to humiliate the Hon’ble President. We call upon right-thinking persons to condemn his words in the strongest possible language,” the statement said.Meanwhile, police in Madhya Pradesh’s Dindori district lodged a complaint against Chowdhury, based on a complaint by BJP workers, Indian Express reported. The FIR has been filed under IPC Sections 153 (B) (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 505 (A) (statements conducing to public mischief).In an interview to the Indian Express, Chowdhury has said that the remark was a “slip of the tongue” and he unfamiliarity with Hindi led to the mistake.He also made a special reference to Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, saying, “I went to the Speaker, pleading with him to allow me to reply to the allegations raised against me. Sonia Gandhi, too, went to the Speaker. (She) told him that “Adhir should be given the opportunity to reply”. It is a red-letter day in my Parliamentary career. Today I felt I was not an orphan…I have a guardian in Sonia Gandhi.”(With PTI inputs)