Click to play videoJaipur: After being shifted secretly from Kolkata to Jaipur on Thursday night, controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen is being shifted again to an undisclosed location. Reports suggest she's near Rajasthan-Haryana border
Initially, the Rajasthan government had said it was not informed about Taslima being flown to Jaipur from Kolkata.
Reports suggest she is now being shunted out of Jaipur because the Rajasthan government had not been approached for prior permission.
The author was staying in room number 101 of Hotel Shika near the Civil Secretariat under heavy security.
The police had sealed the hotel entrance and thrown a security cordon around it and all vehicular traffic in the area has been diverted.
The hotel management, meanwhile, refused to divulge anything about the author's stay but reports say a man called Faizal Khan had accompanied her to the Pink City.
West Bengal government rattled
The scenes of violence on Kolkata's main streets broadcast across the country on Wednesday rattled the CPM government in West Bengal, the target of the mob's fury being Taslima, whose visa had been extended by the state government for six more months angering Muslim fundamentalists.
Taking no chances with further fuelling the fury and clearly buckling under the pressure from Muslim fundamentalist organisations, the West Bengal government on Thursday had quietly moved Taslima out of the state, sending her across the country to Rajasthan.
“She has reached Rajasthan. She is staying in a hotel under the protection of Rajasthan Police,” IGP (security) in Rajasthan, Meghchand Meena, had said ealier.
So secret was the move that Rajasthan police was not informed till her flight landed in Jaipur.
The West Bengal government obviously was not willing to take any risk after violent Wednesday and there were enough signs that the Thursday calm in Kolkata could be broken on Friday.
“A rebellion has begun and well its on its way,” said Siddiqullah Chowdhury from Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind.
For now, Taslima will have to get used to living in Rajasthan, in hiding, hoping the protests don't reach her here.
What was so far a concern for the West Bengal government has now become a problem for the Rajasthan Police to deal with.
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