Mahua Moitra's '2 paisa press' comment not endorsed by party: Trinamool Congress' Subrata Mukherjee

"I have not heard it. But the comment does not sound nice. Mamata Banerjee and her party do have a friendly relationship with the press. Mamata Banerjee believes in press relationship," said Mukherjee at a press conference here.

"All of us are individuals as well as collective as a party. It does not matter whether the media speaks in favour of us or not but we believe in a relationship with the press," the senior minister added.

On Sunday, when Moitra went to join a party-meeting at Gayeshpur in Nadia district, a section of Trinamool workers staged a protest holding placards against her, and they also engaged in a scuffle with another section of the same party activists.

Amid the situation, Moitra lost her cool and shouted, "two paisa press" to the media personnel present there that time.

After the event was over, when the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha MP was asked about her remark, she said, "I did not ask you to record my comments, then why did you do so? Leave it." 

Facing massive backlash on social media, Moitra apologised for the comment but taking a further dig.

Moitra took to Twitter to issue a statement, "I apologise for the mean, hurtful, accurate things I said."

Condemning Moitra's comment, the Kolkata Press Club said in a statement, " None has the right to hurt the media personnel who work in unfavourable circumstances, we are strongly condemning TMC MP Mahua Moitra's statement, her remark towards journalists is undoubtedly insulting and undesired."

"We hope she will take back her comment and apologize for it as well," the statement read.