Tapas should be forgiven: Pranab's son

He also said Paul's remark might be a 'slip of tongue'.

"It might be a slip of tongue. But such mistakes should not occur," Mukherjee told media.

He said: "Tapas has written an apology letter. I feel since he has apologised."

 Abhijit Mukherjee had drawn flak after calling the fatal grang-rape protesters in Delhi as one by  'highly dented and painted" women.

 Trinamool Congress on Wednesday said an unconditional apology by its MP Tapas Paul, who threatened in a village the opposition CPI-M women with rape by his boys, has been accepted by the party, effectively letting off the actor-turned-politician facing a nationwide outrage for his remarks.

"The party has accepted his unconditional apology which he did because the party believes that was written in right spirit," party Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien told reporters.

He said the apology in tone, manner and content was in right spirit and "the matter ends there."

O'Brien said Paul tendered the unconditional apology in a letter to the party, women of West Bengal and media and everyone else.

While a nationwide outcry has followed demanding punishment of Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul who in a public meeting in a village in West Bengal has been caught on camera threatening women of the opposition Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) with rape by his boys, the Union Home Ministry has sought a report from the state on the action taken.

He also threatened to kill people himself with a firearm.  

A second video also emerged on Paul's another speech where he also threatened to kill and provoked party members to slit the throat of opposition.