2012 riot accused rues Sadhvi Pragya Thakur's candidature

Mumbai | Thursday | 25th April, 2019

Summary:

The clamour over Pragya Singh Thakur's comments on 26/11 martyr Hemant Karkare and the BJP's subsequent silence is growing. "There cannot be any kind of equation of Abdul Qadir and Sadhvi Pragya Thakur," he said avoiding mention of Karkare or his martyrdom. "It is shameful that Pragya Thakur has taken campaigning to a new low. When DNA made contact with Abdul Qadir on his cellphone he too remembered the national outrage against the 26/11 memorial desecration. "Where is that anger when Pragya Thakur insults martyr Hemant Karkare?.