This Article is From Oct 12, 2015

Sudheendra Kulkarni Addresses Media After Paint Attack: Highlights

Sudheendra Kulkarni Addresses Media After Paint Attack: Highlights
Mumbai: Hours before the launch of former Pakistani minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri's book in Mumbai today, organizer Sudheendra Kulkarni was attacked with black paint by Shiv Sena cadres.

He later held a press conference along with Mr Kasuri.

Here are the highlights of what Mr Kulkarni said:
  • Extend a warm welcome to Mr Kasuri
  • We welcome you, and thank you for accepting our invitation
  • You agreed to come to Mumbai despite threats
  • Our original program was to have a media interaction with you as a prelude
  • We have received threats from the Shiv Sena
  • We have received threats that if we don't cancel our program today, they will disrupt the program in typical 'Sena style'
  • But the book launch event will go on as scheduled despite the threats that we have received

Here are the highlights of what Mr Kasuri said:
  • I am unhappy at what has happened today. I am very upset
  • I have come to Mumbai where my father has studied and was imprisoned. I want to pay a tribute to Mumbai
  • It is the commercial capital of India.  It is an inclusive city
  • I recognise the right of people to protest and know what political opposition is
  • I have understood that as long as it is peaceful, it is justified
  • You have a right to protest, but what happened to Mr Kulkarni is beyond that
  • I am not depressed by incidents like these. I know there are people in Pakistan and India who do not want good relations between the two nations
  • But there is also an overwhelming majority of people in Pakistan who want good relations with India
  • Strengthening of relationship between India and Pakistan will be in the interest of both the nations
  • Neither was I a minister during Kargill and nor was I a minister during 26/11 attacks

     





 
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