Sadhvi Pragya Thakur should be expelled from BJP: Nitish Kumar

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May 19 2019 03:23 PM
Anurag Singh Bisen

Sadhvi Pragya Thakur should be expelled from BJP: Nitish Kumar

JD(U) Chief Nitish Kumar, a strong ally of Bhartiya Janta Party, made it clear that his party would not tolerate such things. After casting his vote on Sunday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar condemned his alliance partner BJP's leader Pragya Thakur’s controversial remark that Nathuram Godse was a deshbhakt (patriot).

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“This is condemnable...Mahatma Gandhi is father of nation and people will not like if anyone talks about Nathuram Godse in this manner”, Mr Kumar said when asked about BJP’s Bhopal candidate Pragya Singh Thakur’s controversial remark that assassin of Mahatma Gandhi Nathuram Godse was a patriot. He said BJP should expel Ms Thakur from the party.

“We should not tolerate such things”, he added while speaking to a news agency. When asked if Ms Thakur be expelled from the party, Mr Kumar said, “it must be considered”. “But, it is an internal matter of the BJP”, he further said.

Mr Kumar casted his vote at a government school near Raj Bhawan and said that “elections should not be held over such long duration”.

“A long gap was there between each seven phases of poll...I’ll write to leaders of all political parties to build a consensus on this that election should wrap up early for convenient of voters”, said Mr Kumar while speaking to journalists.

In the meantime, reacting over Mr Kumar’s statement, EX-CM and RJD leader Rabri Devi said, “If he (Nitish Kumar) is so troubled by Pragya Thakur, then he should resign from the government”. Earlier PM Modi had said that he would never “forgive” Pragya Thakur for her comments on Mahatma Gandhi.