EC third notice to Sadhvi Pragya Thakur |
Election Commission of India served a third notice to Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur for calling Congress` candidate, Digvijaya Singh, a “terrorist.” During an election campaign in Madhya Pradesh`s Sehore on Thursday, Pragya Thakur had allegedly said that a sanyasi (ascetic) is needed to eliminate a “terrorist”. The EC has asked for a comprehensive report from the Collector on her statements. The 48-year-old right-wing activist, who is also an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, has been in the eye of a storm after Bharatiya Janata Party fielded her from Bhopal constituency in the Lok Sabha election, against Congress veteran and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh. She is already in the middle of a controversy due to her statement on former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, who died in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. She had allegedly claimed that Karkare died during the terror attacks, as she "cursed" him for "torturing" her, when he probed the blast case as chief of the Anti-Terrorism Squad. The EC has issued a show-cause notice to Thakur in both the cases.
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