Taslima questions Srijato, Mandakranta's 'selective' stand

Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen today said she supports the poets who were vilified for their criticism of Yogi Adityanath, but questioned their silence when she was "bundled out" of West Bengal in 2007.

She said that she had always fought for freedom of speech, but at the same time one cannot be "selective" while exercising that freedom.

Her remarks came a day after a case was registered against unknown persons for threatening eminent Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen with gangrape for expressing solidarity with fellow poet Srijato who recently was embroiled in a controversy after writing a poem allegedly hurting "Hindu sentiments".

"Where were these two when I was forced out of West Bengal by 'fundamentalists' for my writing in 2007?" Nasreen told

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