Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur  

Congress Member of Parliament from Rajya Sabha Husain Dalwai slammed BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and also called out the BJP over Hindu terrorism.

If detaining historian Ramachandra Guha for some time was shocking and appalling, imagine the plight of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur who was incarcerated for 9 years, with unbearable torture underlining her stay

The BJP has barred Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur from House meets and has even removed her from the Defence panel. This comes after Pragya Thakur had described Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi's assassin, as ‘deshbhakt’ during the Lok Sabha proceedings. Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur is the MP from Bhopal.

Time is of essence in what Farhan did as he appealed the voters of Bhopal to vote on Sunday against BJP’s Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, but only a week after the city went to polls on May 12

Congress Legislature Party leader Siddaramaiah in Karnataka has once again grabbed the headlines after calling Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur a terrorist. State BJP media panellist Vivek Subba Reddy condemned Siddaramaiah's claim.

Tejasvi Surya, the BJP candidate from Bengaluru South constituency, with strong Hindutva credentials, is campaigning for Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, the BJP candidate from Bhopal

Meanwhile, based on inputs from intelligence agencies, the security status of Thakur has been bumped up to ‘Z’ category. Now, 22 security personnel would accompany her round the clock. Her house too has been fixed with metal detectors.
 

Former anti-terrorism squad chief Hemant Karkare was killed along with two other senior police officers while fighting terrorists during the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in November 2008
 

A "civilisational" contest to boot is what it may well turn out to be given the larger issues at stake. In no other single contest are the battle lines as clearly drawn as in Bhopal: National interest versus minority appeasement.

 

 

While Sadhvi Pagya's choice is contentious, the Congress which is crying itself hoarse on the matter has no real moral ground to stand for its track record is dubious. To bring this up is not 'whataboutery', but just pertinent comparison. For, it has made Kamal Nath, whose role in the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 is too notorious to be overlooked, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. It is an abstruse technicality that is saving him

The application before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai was filed by Nisar Sayeed, who lost his son in the blast in 2008.

 

 

 

Under the UAPA, the accused have been charged with being part of a terrorist act, and under IPC they have been charged with criminal conspiracy and murder.