Left parties wash their hands off Taslima Nasreen

INDIAN AT HEART: Taslima says she is eager to stay in India and that her heart belongs to Kolkata.

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New Delhi: As living in India gets tough for Taslima Nasreen, the Left has washed its hands off the Bangladeshi author, saying it's for the Centre to decide where the controversial Bangaladeshi author will stay.

The Left Central leadership reacted after the Central Government served an ultimatum to Taslima, asking her to either stay in Delhi under police supervision or leave the country.

CPI(M) Central committee member Shyamal Chakraborty said the latest development concerning the exiled Bangladeshi writer was a matter between her and the Centre. "That is a matter between Taslima and Central government. We have got nothing to say about it," he said.

Chakraborty was reacting to report that the Central Government has barred Taslima from coming out in public or freely meeting people. The author, who has been living in an undisclosed location in the national capital for the last one month after she was hounded out of Kolkata, are now under restrictions which she has herself described as 'house arrest'.

Taslima says she is eager to stay in India. The Bangladeshi author told CNN-IBN on Thursday that her heart belongs to Kolkata though the government doesn't want her.

But the Left is not listening. They have literally washed their hands off Taslima Nasreen and said that it is for the Central Government to decide where the controversial Bangladeshi author will stay.

According to reports, even the CPI(M) led West Bengal government has made it clear that it will not host her. The Central leadership of the Left Front, however, denied this. They claim that they are not aware of any such communication from the state government to the Centre.

The Union Home Ministry has, however, refused to comment on the issye. Asked to react to the reports that the 45-year-old writer has been asked to stay in New Delhi and is not being allowed to return to Kolkata, Home Minister Shivraj Patil refused to comment.