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Shoba De refuses to apologise for her tweet, 'Why can't Mumbai be a separate state?'
August 01, 2013
Writer Shobha De, who is under fire from political parties in Maharashtra for her tweet, refused to apologise. She tweeted after the Congress announced the decision to create a new Telangana state, "Maharashtra and Mumbai??? Why not? Mumbai has always fancied itself as an independent entity, anyway. This game has countless possibilities."
De told NDTV that her tweet was satirical and that she saw no reason to
apologise for it. "What I have said is not offensive. It was in the
context of Telangana saying that what is happening in Andhra Pradesh
could also happen in any other state. It is a political maneuver. I have
at no stage recommended, endorsed or suggested that Maharashtra should
separate from Mumbai," she said.
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