Progressive Duplicity and moral policing

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Notice to Renuka over ‘Taliban’ remarks

MANGALORE: <b>Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) mayor backed by members from BJP, Congress and JD(S),</b> slapped a legal notice on Union Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury on Wednesday.

MCC mayor Ganesh Hosabettu, releasing copies of notice to reporters at Ballalbagh in Mangalore, said the Chowdhury’s “unpalatable’’ remarks describing Mangalore as “Talibanised’’ and the presence of “a clear communal divide in Mangalore’’ had hurt Mangaloreans and commerce in the region.

Advocate P P Hegde, who dispatched the legal notice via e-mail, told reporters that the words “Taliban’’ and “Talibanisation’’, repeatedly telecast on all national channels on February 7 and 8, “is the most abusive and degradable form of verbal assault on all Mangaloreans’’.

“The Union Minister’s statements have degraded the community of Mangalroeans as anti-nationals and offended religious sentiments of people residing in Mangalore. An isolated incident did not warrant a generalised statement from a responsible Minister,’’ he said. He said the mayor himself had decided to file a case to demonstrate the fact that Mangaloreans, cutting across caste and party affiliations, are united.

The other members party to the legal notice included <b>Ramesh </b>of Shilpa Colour Lab, <b>Anwar Manipady, Melwyn Fernandes, Nalini Shetty</b> of Stree Shakti groups among others.

Urging the Union Minister not to politicise the issues, he said if Chowdhury fails to respond to the notice within Friday, they would file a criminal case against the Union Minister before February 16.

Hegde, responding to a query, said the names of Congress and JD(S) leaders backing the legal notice would be revealed at the time of filing a criminal case.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->