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Kulkarni ink attack: Shiv Sena face blackened

BJP slams Ally, Maharashtra goes ahead with Kasuri book fete

New Delhi: The Shiv Sena found itself completely isolated over Monday’s black-ink and oil-paint attack on former BJP strategist Sudheendra Kularni as political parties of different ideologies disapproved it in one voice.

Condemning the attack, former deputy prime minister L.K. Advani said it reflected “growing intolerance” in the country and was a cause for concern, while the main Opposition Congress dubbed the Shiv Sena the “Desi Taliban (Indian Taliban).”

Earlier in the day, Shiv Sena activists blackened the face of Mr Kulkarni over his refusal to cancel the book launch function of former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri.

They intercepted the car of Mr Kulkarni, chairman of the Observer Research Foundation, a foreign policy think tank, just outside his home and painted his face black.

A defiant Mr Kulkarni said he would not be “cowed down” by such actions. The launch of Mr Kasuri’s book Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An Insider’s Account of Pakistan’s Foreign Policy, was held as scheduled.

( Source : deccan chronicle )
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