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Now Pranab, Omar drop out of India Today conclave
Saturday March 17, 2012 12:24:12 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah Saturday cancelled their participation at the India
Today Conclave that is to be attended by controversial author
Salman Rushdie.
The organisers did not cite any reason for the cancellation, but
their dropping out is said to be over the participation of Rushdie.
Mukherjee, who was to appear at the conclave a day after his
budget presentation, regretted his inability to attend, apparently
because of pressure from his constituency, Jangipur, in West
Bengal that has a large Muslim population.
Rushdie is in the capital for the concluding session of the
two-day annual conclave. On Friday, Rushdie's literary session was
postponed to Saturday after Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan
dropped out, ostensibly over Rushdie.
Rushdie's participation at the two-day conclave that started
Friday at a five-star hotel here comes barely two months after he
had to cancel his visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival due to
threats from radical Muslim groups protesting against "derogatory
references" to Islam in his novel "The Satanic Verses".
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