India's Modi chooses woman facing terrorism charges as election candidate

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For nearly a decade, Pragya Thakur was known mostly as the saffron-clad Hindu as...

BHOPAL, India - For nearly a decade, Pragya Thakur was known mostly as the saffron-clad Hindu ascetic shuttling in and out of Indian courts, flanked by police, facing charges under an anti-terrorism law for plotting a bomb attack on Muslims.

Overnight, Thakur, who has been out on bail since 2017, emerged as a symbol of a Hindu nationalist movement that is showing increasing intolerance towards Muslims in the Hindu-dominated nation. “They are addressing a very extreme form of the Hindutva fold,” said Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, a New Delhi-based biographer of Modi, referring to the BJP’s Hindu-first ideology.

Born in a village in central India, she grew up to become a leader of a youth group linked to the BJP, and usually clad in a shirt and jeans, hair cropped short, came to be referred to as “didi”, or elder sister, her sister Upma said. “I was there, I had broken the structure, and I will go back to build the temple,” Thakur said in a campaign speech, echoing BJP’s promise to build a temple at the mosque site.Thakur, whose family says she is a cancer survivor, has often wept while describing the torture she claims she endured in custody.

 

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And the west will not dare to condemn. How sick! Had this happen in a Muslim country then they would be all up n arms about it. This is called Double standards AJ!

javerias Will never forgive Pragya for praising Godse: Narendra Modi

U r bastared ,porkis r the problem for the world

javerias She’s inline to Premiership.

India isn’t “Hindu-dominated” India is Hindustan. Let them follow their dharma man, you’re such plebians

Losers. The opposition Congress party’s head and his mum are also out on bail. Got the cojones to talk about that too

He himself is Mass Murderer

They masks though

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