BJP says Congress playing politics with
Rushdie visit
Tuesday January 10, 2012 03:08:48 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday accused the Congress of
playing politics by inviting Salman Rushdie to the Jaipur
Literature Festival despite knowing that "conditions are not
favourable" to welcome the writer to India.
"First, Congress party proposed Salman Rushdie to come to India
and now it will only dispose the visa. There is a political game
and if they knew that conditions are not favorable to welcome
Salman Rushdie why did they give visa to him," said BJP leader
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
He said after protests by the Darul Uloom Deoband the government
will cancel the visa, adding there is a political motive behind
the whole controversy. However, he failed to clarify his remark.
India's top Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband Monday asked the
government not to allow Rushdie to come to India for the
literature festival as the author has "hurt the sentiments of
Muslims the world over" with his work.
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