New Delhi: Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen on Sunday advised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to “learn” from Congress leader P. Chidambaram and admit it was “wrong” to stop broadcast of a TV serial scripted by her after fundamentalists objected to it.
“Mamata B should learn from Chidambaram and say banning Taslima’s TV drama series is wrong. She should lift the ban and let the TV telecast the series,” Ms Nasreen said in a tweet.
The broadcast of the author’s serial about a family settled in Kolkata was stopped on a private channel in December, 2013.
Ms Nasreen had then blamed the West Bengal government for supporting fundamentalists belonging to a certain community and tweeted that she felt she was living in Saudi Arabia.
The remarks of the writer, living in exile in India, came a day after Mr Chidambaram admitted that banning of Salman Rushdie’s novel ‘Satanic Verses’ by the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1988 was “wrong”.
Ms Nasreen, who drew the ire of fundamentalists for her controversial books like Lajja and Dwikhandito tweeted, “P. Chidambaram said the decision to ban Satanic Verses was wrong. When would B. Bhattacharya say banning my book Dwikhandito was wrong?”
Former Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadev Bhattacharya had banned the book.
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