Actress Preity Zinta, attending a ceremony to celebrate the International Women's Day stormed out of the post ceremony press meeting.Preity, ambassador of Godfrey Phillips Bravery, had remained during the Bravery Award felicitation ceremony at Dilli Haat as part of the women's day celebrations, presented by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur.Immediately the award ceremony concluded Preity invited the reporters to a press conference at Maurya Sheraton, but brfore things got underway she suddenly left in a huff, leaving both media and the Godfrey Phillips Bravery representatives clueless.The awards ceremony had been organised by the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) the celebrations in association with Godfrey Phillips. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Union Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Choudhury and DCW chairperson Kiran Walia were also in attendence the event.Gursharan Kaur said that on this special day, women must pledge to deal with society's ills like female foeticide, dowry deaths and child marriages.Dikshit said: "This is a special day, a day of celebration for all women who should take a pledge to stop from this moment all the injustice done to them."While addressing the crowd, which had gathered to get a glimpse of the Bollywood diva, she added, "Lord Krishna had asserted that tolerating injustice is a bigger sin than committing injustice. Indian women must shed all fear to fight injustice."

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