#AkademiExodus: ‘BJP shooting the messenger’

Congress leader Manish Tewari today accused the BJP government of ‘bigotry’, a day after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley called the Sahitya Akademi ‘exodus’ a “manufactured paper rebellion" against the government in the wake of a "manufactured crisis", “Bigotry-Rather than hearing the message BJP is shooting the messenger by dubbing writers who have returned awards as leftists or Nehruvian,” read Tewari’s tweet, lashing out at the government. Over the past few weeks, a series of writers have returned awards conferred on them by the Sahitya Academy on grounds that an atmosphere of intolerance has been created under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.