[Reader-list] Arundhati Roy a loose canon: Congress

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

NEW DELHI (IANS) - Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy who had issued a
statement advocating freedom for Kashmir was a "loose cannon" who had
"abused the liberal traditions of India", the Congress said on Wednesday.
"She (Roy) is a loose cannon who has abused liberal traditions of India to
its fullest," said Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari.

"It is a great tribute to the tolerance of India's ethos that a person who
openly calls for Balkanization of country is not being locked up and the
keys are not being thrown away," Tiwari told IANS .

The author and rights activist had said on Monday after participating in a
rally to the UN office in Srinagar: "The reaction of the people in Kashmir
is actually a referendum. People don't need anyone to represent them; they
are representing themselves. India needs freedom from Kashmir as much as
Kashmir needs freedom from India."

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