MUMBAI: Bollywood celebrities condemned shameful act of Shiv Sena activists, TheNewstribe.com learnt from Indian media.
Stars of B-town criticized the paint smearing attack on ORF chairman Sudheendra Kulkarni. Shabana Azmi, Mahesh Bhatt among others, called it a shameful incident for a democratic country like India.
On October 12 (today), Hindu extremist group Shiv Sena’s workers attacked the organiser of former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s book launch in Mumbai.
The chairman of Observer Research Foundation (ORF) Sudheendra Kulkarni, who is orangnising Khurshid Kusuri’s book launch in India, said that the Shiv Sena workers threw black ink at his face for organising the book launch.
“As soon as I stepped out of my house and got into my car, around 8-10 Shiv Sena workers attacked me and threw ink on my face,” Kulkarni told an Indian news agency.
He said the book launch will be held as scheduled despite threats from Shiv Sena.
Kasuri is scheduled to attend the launch of his book Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An Insider s Account of Pakistan s Foreign Policy on Monday.
Mumbai is the capital of western Maharashtra state, which is ruled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in coalition with Shiv Sena.
Shiv Sena had written to the director of Worli s Nehru Centre, the launch venue, to cancel the show because of the Pakistan connection.
The hostility between Pakistan and India dates back seven decades, and the two countries have fought three wars. The hostilities have been punctuated by periodic peace talks that have failed to resolve core issues including the Kashmir dispute.
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