How many more before the ‘mistake’ is corrected?” While this has become a familiar Bharatiya Janata Party-Congress battle, Rushdie’s sarcastic question is the nub of the matter: when will the ban be lifted? Chidambaram remembered his liberal playbook neatly when his party is out of power. Asked why it took him so long to say something that many would consider obvious, Chidambaram said, “If you had asked me 20 years ago, I would have told you the same thing.” The reply didn’t satisfy Rushdie who tweeted: “This admission just took 27 years. The novel had outraged conservative Muslim opinion when it was published. The proscription was imposed 27 years back, in 1988, when Chidambaram was the Minister of State Home Affairs in Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s cabinet. “I have no hesitation in saying that the ban on Salman Rushdie’s book was wrong,” he said. On Saturday, senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram admitted that the ban on Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses was unjust.
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