In May 2019, during the Lok Sabha polls, Ms. Thakur kicked up a huge row by calling Godse a patriot, but apologised for it later and withdrew the statement.
BJP MP from Bhopal Pragya Singh Thakur has ended up alluding to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as a “patriot” while attacking the Congress.
Ms. Thakur, an accused in the the 2008 Malegaon blast case, on Tuesday evening alleged that the Congress has always abused patriots.
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Her comment came in the wake of Congress leader Digvijaya Singh’s remark terming Godse as the “first terrorist”.
“The Congress has always abused patriots…termed them as ‘saffron terrorists’. Nothing is more vile than this and I don’t want to say anything more on the issue,” Ms. Thakur told reporters in Ujjain when asked about Mr. Singh’s remark on Godse.
In May 2019, during the Lok Sabha polls, Ms. Thakur had kicked up a huge row by calling Godse a patriot, but apologised for it…