| Noted Indian author and Booker Prize winner, Arundhati Roy has reacted to the court directive asking Delhi police to file a case of sedition against her and others saying that a similar treatment should be meted out to India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, reports Kashmir Media Service.
In a press statement, Arundhati Roy listed a number of occasions when India's first prime minister had described the Kashmir dispute in a manner, which would offend most Indians today. She urged the police to file an FIR against Nehru posthumously.
The noted author said that in his broadcast to the nation over All India Radio on 2nd November, 1947, Pandit Nehru had stated, 'We are anxious not to finalise anything in a moment of crisis and without the fullest opportunity to be given to the people of Kashmir to have their say. It is for them ultimately to decide.'
Roy further maintained that in the Indian Constituent Assembly on 25th November, 1947, Nehru said, 'In order to establish our bona fide, we have suggested that when the people are given the chance to decide their future, this should be done under the supervision of an impartial tribunal such as the United Nations Organisation. The issue in Kashmir is whether violence and naked force should decide the future or the will of the people.'
http://www.newagebd.com/2010/nov/29/front.html |
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