Renuka Chowdhury gets Legal Notice for making offending statements on Mangalore!

Posted by on Feb 12, 2009 in India

The Union Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury has been served a legal notice from the first citizen of Mangalore – the Mayor Ganesh Hosabettu along with several other prominent Mangaloreans for her offending statements on the city comparing it with the ‘Taliban’. There is furore among the citizens of Mangalore for getting compared with an unlawful organisation based in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Renuka Chowdhury in print and electronic media had stated that ‘Talibanisation is happening in Mangalore’ and further went onto say ‘there is a clean communal divide in Mangalore where a Hindu girl is prevented from talking to a Muslim boy in Mangalore’.

The first statement of hers has offended many of the citizens of the country and not just Mangalore. For one stray incident, how fair is it to relate it to the brutal Taliban terrorists? Any part of India is very dear for its citizen, how dare a Minister take advantage of his/her position just for scoring some brownie points and go to the extent of using such derogatory terms?

The legal notice says that the Mangaloreans are peace loving citizens and that their city is rich in its cultural heritage. The legal counsel of the Mangalore Mayor, Mr. P.P. Hegde has filed this legal notice demanding for an apology from Renuka Chowdhury with a suitable public statement within three days from today. The legal notice concludes by saying that if she fails to comply to the demands, then a criminal case will be booked.

Renuka Chowdhury had found herself on the wrong side of the law when she was accused of beating up a traffic constable on duty in 1993. Renuka was a Telugu Desam Party M.P at that time and was driving a car which was stopped by a Head Constable as the road she was trying to go by was closed due to security reasons related to the Prime Minister’s Convoy. An angry Renuka had got down and had ‘kicked and slapped’ the Head Constable Janaki Ram according to the FIR registered at that time.

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