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This is an archive article published on November 27, 2007

We would like to know Taslima’s whereabouts: BJP

The BJP dubbed as ‘strange’ the Central government's Monday night move to shift Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen to an undisclosed location and sought to know her whereabouts.

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The BJP on Tuesday dubbed as ‘strange’ the Central government’s Monday night move to shift Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen to an undisclosed location and sought to know her whereabouts.

The party claimed that the Centre did not even think of informing the Rajasthan government, which had arranged the controversial writer’s stay at a state guest house in New Delhi , before taking charge of her security.

“We would like to know where she is. I had raised the issue in Parliament also,” BJP Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha V K Malhotra said in New Delhi.

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He described the late night shifting of Nasreen to an undisclosed location by the Central government as a ‘strange incident’.

The saffron party has been demanding that she be treated as a political refugee and allowed to stay wherever she wanted in the country.

Malhotra also criticised the silence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on the issue.

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