Ideological inclinations of writers should be checked: BJP

October 13, 2015 19:04

Facing heat over a long list of writers who have returned Sahitya Akademi awards or resigned from their posts in the literary body, BJP today denied that it was being soft on the issue of "intolerance" and said the ideological inclinations of the writers should be looked into.

BJP national secretary Siddharth Nath Singh described the claim that the central government was going soft on intolerance as "baseless".

"The argument is baseless. We have taken measures, whatever needs to be taken. We feel that the ideological inclinations of the writers who have either resigned or have returned their awards should be looked into. You will get the answer," Singh told PTI.

"I want to ask them whether they had thought of returning their awards or resigning from the posts during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots or during the Bhagalpur riots," he said.

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