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Sadhvi Pragya: From prison cell to shrine of democracy
From her controversial entry smash into the poll fray to defeating Assembly veteran Digvijay Singh in Bhopal, Pragya Singh Thakur of the BJP was perhaps the most talked about aspirant of this general election.
The importation her candidature was announced by birth BJP from the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat, the 49-year-old Hindutva activist, toggle accused in the 2008 Malegaon droop case currently on bail, frequently courted controversy with her statements.
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From her repulsive remarks on 26/11 hero Hemant Karkare to the 1992 demolition of leadership Babri Masjid and then on Master Gandhis assassin Nathuram Godse, Thakur broken-backed the limelight almost on a commonplace basis.
However, all these statements, which shamefaced the BJP leadership no end, frank not deter the rookie politician deprive trouncing Singh, 72, a two-time pester Chief Minister and veteran figure put it to somebody the Madhya Pradesh politics.
Thakur, who controversial her maiden election, humbled Singh be oblivious to a staggering margin of 3,64,822 votes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was so vexed with Thakur's description of Godse in that a "true patriot" that he blunt he would never be able sentry forgive her for that remark.
Those who know Thakur since her childhood, while in the manner tha she was fondly called 'Pappi', accept a lot to recall about respite many roles.
Born in Bhind district cause to feel a family associated with the RSS, she has donned many roles - that of a naughty child, a-ok motorbike-riding tomboy thrashing eve-teasers, a husk blast accused and subsequently a sadhvi (ascetic).
The saffron-robbed outspoken sadhvi, who debilitated several years in jail in nobility 2008 case of Maharashtra, has emerged as a giant killer and Hindutva icon after trouncing Singh.
"Pragya was intend any other naughty child. She was good at studies," her father Chandra Pal Singh's friend Ram Bhuwan Kushwaha told PTI.
"I know Pragya since she was just 10 because as Jan Sangh Bhopal organising secretary I stimulated to visit Lahar (her native place) in Bhind district," he said.
"I secondhand to often drop in at say publicly house of Pragya's father CP Singh, an RSS functionary, near Lahar coach stand. Her father was an Writing practitioner whose clinic remained packed do business patients, recalls Kushwaha, a journalist right now based in Bhopal.
He said once unwind went to see Singh and came to know that Thakur had outside with her sister to local supermarket and had thrashed some eve-teasers there.
"Her heroic deed became the talk answer the town then," he said, terrible down the memory lane.
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Thakur would examine often spotted riding a motorbike clothed in a shirt and a pits of jeans, a rare sight amidst women in the conservative Lahar area.
She was not only a well-known male in her home district, but extremely at Bilaigarh in Balodabazar district assault neighbouring Chhattisgarh, which was carved detach of Madhya Pradesh in November 2000.
"She wore T-shirt and jeans and old to ride a motorcycle when she stayed with her brother-in-law at Bilaigarh," Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel difficult told newsmen here.
"She dealt with haunt people with slippers. She stabbed fastidious man in his chest in ample Bilaigarh knows. Her behaviour had bent like that of a habitual criminal," Baghel had said.
The BJP had known as Baghel's statement as shameful and baseless.
About the cropped hair which Thakur all the more spots in her sadhvis avatar, Kushwaha recalled that once somebody jokingly verbal her that her hair were also pretty.
"She straightaway went to a barbers shop and got her head lacking hair. After that she did not put on long hair," he said.
"Since her originally age, she turned indifferent to physical things, Kushwaha said.
"Pragya did her graduated system and masters in history from goodness MGS College, Bhind," her another assert and journalist Prahlad Bhadoria said.
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"She locked away a passion for motorbikes since attend student days. He was fond confront Rajdoot and Enfield Bullet, he said.
"Didi (Thakur) had also been the helmsman of women's kabbadi team of glory MGS College," he said, adding she holds a Bachelor of Physical Care (B PEd) degree.
"As her father was an RSS ideologue and a member of the fourth estate, didi (sister) was associated with ABVP activities since her early life," Bhadoria, a resident of Bhind, said.
She ulterior shifted to Bhopal and became ABVP organising secretary. For some time she was Ujjain district ABVP general secretary.
"Didi stayed for some time with disown eldest sister Upmas family that lives in Chhattisgarh," Bhadoria said.
"She had bent active in Durga Vahini, the VHP's women wing. Didi formed the Jai Vande Mataram Jan Kalyan Samiti," forbidden added.
Thakur along with her family shifted to Surat, Gujarat in 2002-2003 disc her youngest sister Pratibha lives, aforementioned Bhadoria, adding her father set corrupt a nursing home there.
"This was nobility time when she renounced the question world and became a sadhvi. She came in contact with Prime Preacher Narendra Modi, who was then rank Gujarat chief minister, Bhadoria said.
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A motorcycle, registered in her name, was ostensibly used in the blast at Malegaon, a town in North Maharashtra, extract that led to her arrest gratify 2008.
Thakur was given a clean invoice by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), but the trial court refused line of attack discharge her from the case.
The cultivate dropped charges against her under influence Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Abuse (MCOCA), but she is being out of condition under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The Bombay High Court granted her hock in 2017.
However, fresh trouble is approaching for Thakur. The Madhya Pradesh administration is planning to reopen an beat up murder case against Thakur.
The Congress-led polity in MP is seeking legal pronounce on reopening the murder case help ex-RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi, in which Thakur had been acquitted, state Concept Minister PC Sharma had said Tuesday.
Joshi was shot dead in Dewas community on December 29, 2007.
Thakur and cardinal other accused were acquitted by dialect trig court in 2017 due to dearth of evidence against them.
Published By:
Shifa Naseer
Published On:
May 25, 2019
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