Narendra Modi defends BJP giving Lok Sabha election ticket to Malegaon blasts accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, says ‘it will cost Congress’ 

Narendra Modi.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while defending the BJP’s decision to field Malegaon blasts accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur from Bhopal constituency, said this was a “symbolic answer” to all those who “falsely labelled the Hindu civilization as terrorist”. This comes just a day after Thakur commented that the 26/11 martyr, Hemant Karkare, was killed because of her curse.

While referring to Samjhauta Express verdict, in an interview to Times Now, Modi claimed that the Congress defamed a “5,000-old culture that believes in Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam,” and said, “They called them terrorists. To answer them all, this is a symbol (fielding Thakur) and it will cost the Congress.”

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Citing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Modi further took a swipe at senior Congress leader and recently elected Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath and said that those who were identified by eyewitnesses in the anti-Sikh violence were made legislators and cabinet ministers.

As many as 2,733 people were killed in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in which 541 cases were registered and Kamal Nath was questioned but later released of all charges due to lack of evidence in the case.

Without naming anyone from the Congress, Modi said, “Should the Amethi and Rae Bareli candidates who are out on bail not be questioned? But when a Bhopal BJP candidate is out on bail and is fighting elections, there is a huge hue and cry. A woman – a sadhvi was tortured like this, no one raised a finger.”

While referring to the death of CBI special judge Brijmohan Harikishan Loya, whose death, according to the Supreme Court, was due to a heart attack in Nagpur, in December, 2014, Modi assertively added, “In judge Loya case, he died a natural death but the same modus operandi (by Congress) was used to build a narrative that he was killed. The same modus operandi was followed to build a false narrative using videos around electronic voting machines and demonetization. This is their modus operandi.”

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