India, June 29 -- The rape incident of a female law student in Kolkata has once again created a rift between two Trinamool Congress leaders with party MP Kalyan Banerjee now responding to colleague Mahua Moitra's 'misogyny' barb at him.

TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Saturday said the probe in the rape incident is going on "war footing" and assured that her party condemns misogynistic comments no matter who makes them, referring to the remarks by Kalyan Banerjee and Madan Mitra.

She stressed that the TMC-led West Bengal government has "zero tolerance" for crime against women.

In a post on X, Mahua Moitra said: "College student's rape investigation on war footing @KolkataPolice identified & arrested all accused within 12 hrs, sent to 4 day cust...