Bare-footed artist Husain pulled his painting depicting “Mother India” as a naked woman from an auction after protests by rightwing Hindu nationalists. “Anyone who kills Husain for making obscene paintings of goddess Sarswati and Bharat Mata (Mother India), (and) the Danish cartoonist will be given 51 crore rupees ($11.5 million) in cash,” the board said in a statement.
Board president Ashok Pandey said that the amount would be doubled if the task was carried out by Yaqoob Qureshi, the state minister who announced a similar reward for the heads of the cartoonists. We do not distinguish between Islam and Hinduism,” Pandey said.
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