An event to honour International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree in Agra on Saturday was called off by the organisers after a complaint was filed against the author alleging there are some objectionable comments about Indian deities in her novel
The complainant, a resident of Hathras, alleged that her prize-winning novel ‘Ret Samadhi’ has objectionable comments about Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati.
The Rajya Sabha adopted a motion to suspend three more members, Sushil Kumar Gupta and Sandeep Kumar Pathak of AAP and Independent MP Ajit Kumar Bhuyan, for the rest of the week for “unruly behaviour.”