Prasun offered Kerala option to Taslima in Sept by Anjan Chakraborty
(http://thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=1&theme=&usrsess=1&id=178170)
KOLKATA, Nov. 27: The state government had asked controversial
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen to leave West Bengal in September
and shift base to Kerala because of "security concerns" in Kolkata.
The then city police commissioner, Mr Prasun Mukherjee, met Ms Nasreen
at her residence on 7 Rowdon Street on 27 September along with a
senior IPS officer of the state police and conveyed the government's
message. In the two-hour meeting with Ms Nasreen, Mr Mukherjee told
her that the state government was worried about her security and would
make arrangements to secretly move her to Kerala where the local
government would provide her with adequate security.
Ms Nasreen requested the then city police chief for some time before
she could make up her mind. After the two senior IPS officers had
left, Ms Nasreen called up her close friends in the city for advice,
one of whom was Mr Sujato Bhadra, secretariat member of the
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR).
"I was standing outside Raj Bhavan at that time after meeting the
Governor, Mr Gopalkrishna Gandhi, over the Rizwanur Rehman case. I
advised her that if the state government was concerned about her
security and wanted her to move to Kerala, then they should announce
that in public and not move her secretly," Mr Bhadra said. Ms Nasreen
got a similar response from her other friends in Kolkata and when Mr
Mukherjee called her up the following day, she insisted that the state
government should make a public announcement. "To this, Mr Mukherjee's
response was not favourable and he threatened Taslima to face the
consequences for having ignored the state government's warning,"
alleged Mr Bhadra.
When contacted, Mr Prasun Mukherjee, now ADG (Telecom) after he was
unceremoniously removed from the post of city police chief following
the Rizwanur case, said: "Whatever I have done is known to the state
government. I have been to her house, requested her to move to Kerala
and the state home secretary knows everything about it. I am not in
that post anymore, so before asking me, you should ask him first."
The statement of the former police chief contradicts the home
secretary's claim that he did not know about Ms Nasreen leaving the
city and he had seen everything on television. The home secretary's
comment was not available as his cell phone was switched off.
This was not all. The Statesman has learnt that after failing to
secure Ms Nasreen's nod for the proposed shift to Kerala in September,
the state government once again prodded her to leave West Bengal in
October. This time, a senior IPS officer of Kolkata Police called her
up on 15 November and requested her to leave the city in view of
security concerns as there was a protest rally in the city on 17
November, called by hard-line minority organisations who were
demanding among other things, cancellation of her visa.
"This time, the senior IPS officer requested her to move to Rajasthan
where the government, he claimed, would provide her with a place to
stay in and adequate security. He insisted that Taslima's Rowdon
Street residence could come under attack," alleged Mr Bhadra.
Members of the APDR also met representatives of Mr Siddiqullah
Chowdhury, leader of Jamait-e-Ulema-i-Hind and requested them to break
the ice about Ms Nasreen's stay in India.
"We requested them to soften their stand on Taslima's visa
cancellation and that this should not be their primary demand.
They had agreed somewhat and the rally on 17 November passed off
peacefully," Mr Bhadra added. When asked if he had any knowledge about
any meeting between Mr Chowdhury and the then city police chief over
Taslima, Mr Bhadra said: "Not that I know of."
Feedback (Internet)
Do you think the ASSHOLE Chief Minister(Shaitan) did not know this
from Prasun the Foot-Licker? (PA CHATA PRASUN - Police CHIEF, the
Criminal conspirator in Riz murder).
Note: Prasun Mukherjee was described as representative of Shubho shakti(power of the good) by Buddhadeb who used police administration to get him elected as president of Cricket Association of Bengal, albeit in vein, against Jagmohan Dalmia, existing president, whom Buddhadeb described as the face of ashubho shakti (power of the evil).
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