Bhopal: Conspicuous by her absence within the run-up to meeting polls in Madhya Pradesh, Pragya Singh Thakur mentioned she is able to contest the final election if instructed by the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) central management. Thakur, nevertheless, added that she gained’t strategy the management in Delhi to ask for a ticket to retain the seat she first gained in 2019.
In an unique interview with ThePrint, the MP from Bhopal mentioned the BJP prime brass agreed to maintain her off the marketing campaign path in MP to permit her to deal with her court docket case. She is an accused within the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
“The case is being heard regularly and there are daily hearings as it is a fast track court. It is now at the stage where my statement has to be recorded and I cannot ignore the court order,” she mentioned.
Thakur added that although the BJP is an enormous occasion and the absence of 1 individual is not going to make any distinction, it was her “duty to be there (on the campaign trail) but it was also important to give priority to the court”.
Requested if she would search a ticket for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Pragya Singh Thakur instructed ThePrint, “I am completely devoted to the organisation and whatever they will decide for me, it will be the final decision.”
She added, “I think, when I had contested the elections (2019 Lok Sabha polls), I did not have to go and keep my side of the story. It was the organisation that asked me to contest the elections. If the organisation says you have to contest elections in the future, I will contest. If I am asked to not contest the elections, I will not contest elections. When there is complete dedication, there is no room for any other questions to arise.”
Referring to her tenure because the BJP MP from Bhopal, Thakur mentioned she at all times raised the voice of her constituents in Parliament. She had defeated Congress veteran and former chief minister Digvijaya Singh by a margin of almost 3.4 lakh votes within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
“Whatever commitments we (BJP) made, our then CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan fulfilled it…I just know that whatever time I got from the party, I utilised it for the betterment of the people and I gave my everything.”
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Pragya Singh Thakur’s run-ins with controversy
Since her induction into the BJP in April 2019, Thakur courted controversy on multiple event together with her remarks. For example, lower than a month after she joined the BJP, Thakur whereas talking at a public assembly referred to Mahatma Gandhi’s murderer Nathuram Godse as a “patriot”.
She later withdrew the assertion, solely to repeat it in November of that yr on the ground of the Lok Sabha for which she later tendered an apology.
Within the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Thakur additionally whipped up a storm when she in contrast former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare to ‘Kans’ and ‘Ravana’. She additionally mentioned that the Ashok Chakra awardee fell to bullets through the 26/11 assaults as a result of he was “cursed” for arresting her within the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
The BJP had then distanced itself from Thakur, sustaining that this was her private opinion. Thakur additionally acquired a show-cause discover from the Election Fee of India (ECI) and later withdrew her remarks. The ballot panel additionally barred her from campaigning for 3 days and ordered the registration of an FIR in opposition to her after she boasted of getting climbed atop the Babri Masjid in 1992 and enjoying a job in its demolition.
In December 2020, she kicked up a storm but once more when she instructed a gathering of the Kshatriya Mahasabha in Sehore that shudras “are offended” when referred to by their caste attributable to “ignorance” of “our dharmashastra (social treatise)” on their half.
And in Could 2021, she instructed BJP employees in Bhopal that ingesting cow urine “purifies the lungs and saves me from Covid-19 infection”.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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