| Left red-faced over Taslima issue |
| BS Reporter / New Delhi November 26, 2007 |
| The 'secular' credentials of the Left got a setback as the Congress today revealed that the Left-ruled West Bengal government had actually opposed the Centre's bid to renew the visa of the controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen. Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi took a dig at the Left parties, which have kept the government on tenterhooks for the last few months on the issue of the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Agreement. "The UPA government's approval for her stay has nothing to do with the content of her views. The government went through a laid-down procedure while granting her a stay permit. However, it was the West Bengal government which had objected to the extension of Nasreen's stay-permit |
