Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: NDTV.com
Date: August 26, 2008
URL: http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080063066&ch=633554442909818750
BJP on Tuesday cautioned "eminent journalists
and writers" against speaking in favour of "separatist forces",
suggesting that the freedom of writing and speech cannot be at the cost of
the country's sovereignty.
"The party would like to caution the
so-called eminent journalists and writers who are going out of their way to
endorse the separatist idea of an independent Kashmir. The party feels that
the freedom of writing and speech cannot be at the cost of the integrity and
sovereignty of the country," party spokesperson Ravi Shanker Prasad told
reporters in New Delhi in New Delhi.
Freedom of a citizen cannot be misused to
challenge the very national identity because of which we exist as a democratic
country, he added.
Booker prize winning author Arundhati Roy
had come under attack from the Congress as also the BJP over her controversial
statement on Kashmir with the ruling party dubbing her a "loose cannon"
and the main opposition saying that her remarks were "nothing short of
sedition".
Roy had said in Srinagar recently that the
people of Kashmir have made themselves abundantly clear that they want complete
freedom and the government should pay heed to their demand.
