File photo of Congress leader Randeep Surjewala File photo of Congress leader Randeep Surjewala

Congress leader Randeep Surjewala on Monday courted controversy as he addressed the 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru as ‘Ji’ during a press conference.

Surjewala was addresing the media on the ongoing issue of JNU row and said that if we did not trust our constitutional process then we would not have given life sentence to Afzal Guru after exhausting all the legal provisions he had.

WATCH: Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala’s statement on Afzal Guru.https://t.co/Z88HzuDo3b — ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2016

He later apologised for this and said that during the entire address he took Afzal Guru’s name many times but only once addressed him as ‘Ji’ because of slip of tongue.

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