Indian Permit Extended, Taslima Nasreen Thanks ‘Twitter Friends’
Taslima, a citizen of Sweden, has been getting an Indian residence permit on a continuous basis since 2004.
Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen's residence permit has been extended for one year by the Union Home Ministry, officials said on Sunday, 21 July.
Taslima, a citizen of Sweden, has been getting an Indian residence permit on a continuous basis since 2004.
Her residence permit has been further extended for one more year till July 2020, a Home Ministry official told PTI.
On Saturday, 21 July, Taslima tweeted thanking Twitter and the MHA.
Nasreen was referring to a series of tweets that she put out on 16 July when she first mentioned having applied for the extension – later pleading against the fact that it had only been extended by three months instead of 5 years – the term she said she had applied for. On Saturday, she credited Twitterati for having helped her achieve this, since they had “requested MHA to extend it”, according to her.
(With inputs from PTI)
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