Click to play videoJaipur: Rajasthan government have come to the rescue of the Jaipur Literature Festival. The Festiva; organisers and Rajasthan police are holding consultations with Milli Council activists over Salman Rushdie's video conferencing at the Festival.
Sources in Rajasthan Home Ministry said Rushdie's video conference will go on and adequate security will be provided.
Uncertainty over celebrated author Salman Rushdie's video conference at the Jaipur Lit Fest remains following protest by Milli Council on Tuesday.
The video conference was scheduled for 3:45 pm on Tuesday was later deferred after the Jaipur-based group staged protests outside the venue in Jaipur.
Milli Council is one of the organisations which has filed a complaint against writers for reading out passages from 'The Satanic Verses'.
Rushdie will not break any law with his video address at the Festival, the organisers had earlier said.
Jaipur Literature Festival organiser Sanjoy Roy had said that they will go ahead with the video link with Salman Rushdie at 3:45 pm on Tuesday and will continue for one hour.
Roy had asserted that the video link will be according to the law and Rushdie will speak on his book 'Midnight's Children'.
Rushdie's session will only focus on 'Midnight's Children' and not on any banned works of Rushdie. He added that it will be within the parameters of Indian laws. The session will also focus on the life and times of Rushdie, but the author will not take any questions.
Maintaining that there was a "credible threat" to Rushdie if he came for the Literature Festival, the organisers said, "According to what we know and what we share with us there was a credible threat. I can't evaluate the threat. It was the information we received which we shared with Salman Rushdie. We did get some intelligence inputs through the state government which we shared with Salman Rushdie."
He also said that the state government did not ask for any undertaking related to Rushdie's video address.
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