A lot of hullabaloo has been created by statement of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi that he is ready to protect Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen if the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre was unable to provide her adequate protection.
The noted and controversial author has been almost on a run for the last couple of weeks, and is made to shift from one place to another. She is persecuted by the Muslim clergy in Bangladesh as well as India for being courageous in speaking out against fundamentalists. Since the 1990s, she has faced numerous threats from Islamic groups for her writings. Recently, activists of Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) attacked her at a book release function in Hyderabad. What happened in the streets of Kolkata November 21st was not only disgraceful deviation from the real issues of Muslims in West Bengal but it gave the CPM's government as much waited relief to veil in the shadow of Taslima Nasreen It is more than shocking that the issue cropped up at a time when the self style custodian of the secular values the CPI(M) in India the were exposed to the outside world on the issue of the socio-economic conditions of Muslims in West Bengal. Their own intellectuals questioning the handling of Nandigram and communalization of West Bengal. The sheer hypocrisy of the Government of West Bengal was visible by the violence unleashed by CPI(M) goons at Nandigram, it was evident that Communists parties have always stood for tyranny and exploitation of the poor through sensitized slogans and deliveries while having shirked on democratic process. They haven't got the basic lesson in humanity, democracy, adaptability and sensitivity. The recent spread of violence in Singur heaped on protesting farmers has been harboured by CPI(M) is an indication and manifestation of the same. Nandigram is the repetition of that psyche. It is the time to see how pseudo intelligentsia (Left prone) reacts !!!! Vinay
