India, March 17 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of Parliament (MP) Samik Bhattacharya on Monday demanded that expelled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin should be allowed to return to Kolkata, which she left in 2007 amid widespread protests against her literary work.

"Taslima Nasrin wants to come back to Kolkata. This city is like a city of life to her. She wants to compose her work in Bengali," Bhattacharya said during the Zero Hour in Rajya Sabha.

The BJP leader's statement comes in the backdrop of Nasrin alleging that the West Bengal government had suppressed artistic expression by preventing the staging of a theatrical adaptation of her book 'Lajja'. She claimed that her writings remain a target of political appeasement and t...