The Union house ministry has prolonged the residence allow granted to exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, ANI reported on Tuesday.
The event comes a day after the writer took to social media to attraction to house minister Amit Shah to let her keep in India.
In a put up on X, Nasreen had mentioned that India has been her house for the final 20 years.
“Pricey Amit Shah ji Namaskar. I dwell in India as a result of I like this nice nation. It has been my 2nd house for the final 20 yrs. However MHA has not been extending my residence allow since July22. I am so frightened. I might be so grateful to you should you let me keep,” Nasreen had mentioned in a put up on X.
On Tuesday, she expressed her gratitude to the Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah for the transfer. “A world of thanks,” she wrote on X.
Who’s Taslima Nasreen?
Nasreen has been residing in exile since 1994, after she was compelled to depart Bangladesh. She was criticised by Islamist fundamentalists for her writings on communalism and girls’s equality in Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh authorities banned a few of her books, together with her breakthrough novel “Lajja” (1993) and her autobiography “Amar Meyebela” (1998).
“Lajja” attracted extreme criticism because it detailed violence, rape, lootings and killings of Bengali Hindus after the Babri Masjid demolition in India.
After being compelled to depart Bangladesh, Nasreen spent the subsequent 10 years in exile in Sweden, Germany, France, and the US.
Between 2004 and 2007, she stayed in Kolkata however needed to go away town following violent protests by radical Muslims demanding her ouster from India. She was initially moved to Delhi for 3 months and later needed to go away India in 2008 for the US. After a couple of years, she returned again to India.
Just lately, Taslima Nasreen spoke on the political disaster in Bangladesh that unfolded following Sheikh Hasina’s ouster as prime minister. The writer claimed that Islamic radicals are brainwashing and indoctrinating youths to make them “anti-India, anti-Hindu and pro-Pakistan”.
“The current actions like violence in opposition to Hindus, focusing on of journalists and the discharge of “terrorists” from jails confirmed it was not a college students’ motion however was “deliberate and funded by Islamic jihadis,” she had informed PTI in an interview.
Nasreen mentioned she and others had initially supported the scholars’ motion in Bangladesh in opposition to an “autocratic authorities”.
Nevertheless, the current actions like violence in opposition to Hindus, focusing on of journalists and the discharge of “terrorists” from jails confirmed it was not a college students’ motion however was “deliberate and funded by Islamic jihadis”, she mentioned.