BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday accused ‘the so-called secular and US-funded academia’ for opting selective amnesia and double standards on freedom of speech on the cancellation of Wendy Doniger’s controversial book on Hinduism.
In a statement issued he said the same people were seeking his arrest over the controversial article on Islamic terrorism. “They deliberately forget that in late 2011 when the UPA Government, on such US-based academics’ pressure, after getting my Harvard courses deleted by a disgraceful and contrived majority in the faculty meeting and without first asking my response, got registered a FIR invoking the same Sections of IPC for an Op-Ed article I had written for a Mumbai daily The DNA titled How to Wipe Out Islamic Terrorism,” said Swamy. “Today the shoe pinches on the other foot. Prof Doniger opted out fighting for her fundamental rights, as I had done, and her publishers as any good commercial entity would, cut their losses by surrendering faced with certain defeat in the court,” said Swamy.