புத்ததேவே தஸ்லிமாவுக்கு எதிரான ஊர்வலத்தை தூண்டி அவரை துரத்தியவர்- மஹாஸ்வேதா தேவி குற்றச்சாட்டு

எழுத்தாளர் மஹாஸ்வேதா தேவி அவர்கள், புத்ததேவ பட்டாச்சாரியாரே தஸ்லிமாவுக்கு எதிரான ஊர்வலத்தையும் கலவரத்தையும் தூண்டி அவரை கல்கத்தாவிலிருந்து துரத்தியவர். பஞ்சாயதது தேர்தலில் முஸ்லீம்களின் ஓட்டுகளை வாங்குவதற்காக இப்படிப்பட்ட கேவலமான செயலை செய்துள்ளார் என்று குற்றம் சாட்டியுள்ளார்.

எல்லா முஸ்லீம்களும் அடிப்படைவாதிகள் என்ற அடிப்படையில் இவ்வாறு புத்ததேவ் பட்டாச்சாரியார் செய்துள்ளார். அது உண்மையல்ல, எல்லா முஸ்லீம்களும் அடிப்படைவாதிகள் அல்ல என்றும் அவர் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

Buddhadeb a greater fundamentalist: Mahasweta Devi
January 31, 2008 00:26 IST

Eminent writer Mahasweta Devi has accused West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of being a 'greater fundamentalist' who 'had conspired to throw Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen [Images] out of the state' and demanded his resignation.

"Bhattacharjee has said his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi [Images] is a fundamentalist, but what is he doing here? He hounded Taslima out of the city to get Muslim votes in the coming Panchayat polls in the state," the Magsaysay award winning writer told a press conference in Kolkata on Wednesday.

"The chief minister is a greater fundamentalist. He hatched a conspiracy to hound her (Taslima) out of the state. He should resign," she charged, demanding that Taslima be allowed to return to Kolkata.

She said she had spoken to Taslima, who is staying at undisclosed destination in Delhi, on Tuesday night.

"She is ill. Proper treatment was not given to her. As a writer, I demand that she be allowed to return to Kolkata," she said flanked by noted Hindi poet Kedar Nath Singh and Bengali poet Joy Goswami.

Virtually accusing Bhattacharjee of organising the violent protests by Muslims on November 21 demanding Taslima's ouster from the metropolis, Mahasweta Devi said the chief minister perhaps thought that all Muslims were fundamentalists, which was not true.

She wanted to know where Taslima was lodged and said writers in Delhi wanted to be by her side. She also asked Booker prize winner writer Arundhati Roy to talk to social activist Medha Patkar on the issue.

"We will take the issue to the international forum," she said, adding the Amnesty International had been informed.