Taslima Nasreen's exit is a national shame: BJP
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has termed the exit of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen as national shame. The party has accused the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of kneeling down under the pressure from the fundamentalist for the sake of vote bank politics.
Talking to reporters today in New Delhi, BJP national spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, "Failing to give asylum and protection to an individual who is a victim of sadist fundamentalism is a charge which the UPA government must answer and absolve itself. Taslima's exit is nothing short of a National shame."
Rudy also charged the UPA government of conniving with the communal and fundamental forces. "The secular credentials of the Congress led UPA government stands completely shattered as they have connived to the clandestine design of the fundamentalist forces initially putting Taslima under virtual house arrest and subsequently creating a situation of threat and persecution where she had to flee this country fearing death," alleged Rudy.
He also alleged that the government had made a very pathetic arrangement for Taslima while she was put under house arrest in the national capital. Adding, he said that the parceling of Taslima, first by the left front government and subsequently by the UPA government to a secluded undisclosed government custody, which the writer herself termed as "a Chamber of Death", tattered the secular constitutional fabric of the country.
Rudy also asked the UPA government to come clean of the allegation levelled by Taslima that External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee had "exerted great mental pressure on her" to leave the country. The Bangladeshi writer has been shifted to some undisclosed location in Europe by the UPA government after the expiry of visa period on 20 March, 2008.
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