Bhopal, May 20
BJP’s Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, who recently kicked up a row with some of her remarks, on Monday apologised for it and said she is observing “silence” for 63 hours as a mark of penance.
Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, said she felt it was now time for some “soul searching”.
The BJP leader last week courted controversy by calling Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse a “patriot”. Prior to it, she claimed that the then Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare was killed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks due to her “curse”.
Taking a dim view of her remarks on Godse, the BJP said it did not agree with her. Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he will never forgive Thakur for insulting Mahatma Gandhi.
Following some of Thakur’s controversial statements, the Election Commission had imposed a 72-hour ban on her from campaigning in the Lok Sabha polls. — PTI
Godse remark: Haasan gets anticipatory bail
- The Madras HC rapped actor-politician Kamal Haasan for his Hindu extremist remark, observing that identifying a criminal with a religion, caste would sow the seeds of hatred among people
- Granting anticipatory bail to Haasan in a case filed over his controversial remark made at a poll rally, Justice R Pugalendhi also said hate speeches had become a common affair of late
- Haasan apprehended arrest in the case filed over his remark made at Aravakurichi that the first extremist of independent India was a Hindu, a reference to Nathuram Godse who shot Mahatma Gandhi
from The Tribune http://bit.ly/2EnlTUU
via Today’s News Headlines
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