Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' was banned purely due to law and order concerns: Natwar Singh
K Natwar Singh made the statement after the author was stabbed at an event in New York and the Congress was being criticised for banning the novel.
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K Natwar Singh made the statement after the author was stabbed at an event in New York and the Congress was being criticised for banning the novel.
In the wake of the attack on Rushdie in New York, Singh, who was the minister of state for external affairs when the book was banned in 1988, said he was part of the decision and had told the then prime minister the book could cause serious law and order problems.
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