A parliamentary candidate from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party made the incendiary remark just days before the multiphase national elections wrapped up.
Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Pragya Singh Thakur in Bhopal, India, on April 23, 2019. By Joanna Slater Joanna Slater Foreign correspondent covering South Asia Email Bio Follow May 16 at 12:33 PM NEW DELHI — With just days remaining in India’s mammoth national elections, the political debate has veered into an unlikely and inflammatory topic: the assassination of beloved independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.
On Thursday, Pragya Singh Thakur, a parliamentary candidate from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, said in response to a question from a reporter that Godse “was, is and will remain a patriot.” Thakur is perhaps the most controversial candidate contesting the elections. She is out on bail as she faces trial on terrorism charges related to a blast in 2008 that killed six people and injured more than 100. She has denied the charges.
On Thursday, a spokesman for the party distanced the BJP from Thakur’s lionization of Gandhi’s assassin. “We strongly condemn this particular statement,” G.V.L Narasimha Rao told reporters. Thakur, he said, should offer a “public apology.”
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