Arundhati Roy charged with sedition for advocating disputed territory’s secession from India
India n prime minister Narendra Modi’s newly elected federal coalition has been accused of “fascism” for taking prosecution proceedings against Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy over comments she made about the disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir 14 years ago.
Last week, Delhi’s lieutenant governor, V K Saxena, closely linked to the BJP, granted permission to prosecute Roy , and former Kashmir University professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain under the Unlawful Activities Act for declaring at a human rights conference in October 2010 that Kashmir was never an “integral part” of India.
Soon after making the comments, Roy – whose novel The God of Small Things won the 1997 Booker Prize – Hussain and two others were charged by the then Congress Party-led federal coalition government with sedition for advocating Kashmir’s secession from India. “If by prosecuting Arundhati Roy under UAPA, the BJP is trying to prove they’re back, they are not,” the newly elected opposition MP Mahua Mitra from eastern Bengal state wrote on X. “This kind of fascism is exactly what Indians have voted against.”
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