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Publication: Chennaionline.com
Date: March 31, 2005
URL: http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NewsID={3C17912D-2DA5-41B0-A05A-7DF5C5D0FEE6}&CategoryName=NATL
The West Bengal Minority Council
today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to extend the visa of controversial
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who has applied for one and immediately
expel her from India.
The Council in a press release stated
that it had written to the prime minister, Union Home minister Shivraj
Patil, Foreign minister Natwar Singh as well as Congress president Sonia
Gandhi seeking Taslima's expulsion.
It said that xerox copies from various
books, including Dwikhondito had been sent to them 'to expose her true
intentions and malicious propaganda against Islam and Muslims'.
Nasreen, whose visa expired last
month, has applied for Indian citizenship on February 14 or a permanent
residential visa in India.
The writer, has been in self-exile
since 1994 after religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh charged her with
blasphemy and issued death threats against her. (Agencies)