“If Taslima has said sorry for those lines in her book, then keeping in view the Islamic rules and practices, I feel that all believers will end the issue related to it,” Mehmood Madhani, an MP and chief of Jamiat-e-ulama-i-Hind said.

However, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board asked the government to withdraw the books containing the objectionable statements from circulation.

Ms Nasreen, who is presently lodged in an NSG guest house by the Central Government security agencies, said she had not “succumbed to any pressure.” She had decided on the move for “the sake of peace.”

CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta, who spoke to Taslima on her decision, told Deccan Herald that the author had already asked her publisher People’s Book Society to delete the controversial portion in the forthcoming edition of the book. Welcoming the author’s decision, the Marxist leader said there should not be any problem for her now to go back to Kolkata.

Taslima was forced to leave Kolkata for Jaipur after protests against her grew violent. She was brought back to Delhi for security reasons as a minority organisation threatened to protest against the move to grant asylum to the author. She was lodged in the Rajasthan House in New Delhi for a couple of days before the IB sleuths shifted her to the NSG guest house in NCR.

As the opposition BJP demanded information about her whereabouts and expressed concerns about her security, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee was forced to make a statement in Parliament, saying India would not refrain from  sheltering her. He however, added that a guest should refrain from hurting sentiments of the people.

It seems the developments of the last few weeks have shaken her so much that she has chosen to put the controversy at rest by removing the contentious lines.
She has also expressed her desire to return to Kolkata and live peacefully.