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Tejasvi Surya, the BJP candidate from Bengaluru South constituency, with strong Hindutva credentials, is campaigning for Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, the BJP candidate from Bhopal

Meanwhile, based on inputs from intelligence agencies, the security status of Thakur has been bumped up to ‘Z’ category. Now, 22 security personnel would accompany her round the clock. Her house too has been fixed with metal detectors.
 

Thakur’s candidature — a direct threat to Digvijay Singh of the Congress—from the high-profile Bhopal seat had ruffled a lot of feathers as she is an accused in the Malegaon Blasts case

Former anti-terrorism squad chief Hemant Karkare was killed along with two other senior police officers while fighting terrorists during the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in November 2008
 

A "civilisational" contest to boot is what it may well turn out to be given the larger issues at stake. In no other single contest are the battle lines as clearly drawn as in Bhopal: National interest versus minority appeasement.

 

 

While Sadhvi Pagya's choice is contentious, the Congress which is crying itself hoarse on the matter has no real moral ground to stand for its track record is dubious. To bring this up is not 'whataboutery', but just pertinent comparison. For, it has made Kamal Nath, whose role in the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 is too notorious to be overlooked, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. It is an abstruse technicality that is saving him

The application before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai was filed by Nisar Sayeed, who lost his son in the blast in 2008.

 

 

 

Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, along with five other people, was accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, which killed 10 people and injured 80 more. However, the National Investigation Agency said that there wasn’t sufficient evidence against her and dropped all charges.

The Congress’s best performance was in 2009 when its nominee, a non-Muslim, lost by the lowest ever margin of around 65,000 votes. Otherwise, the BJP has consistently polled 50-60% of the popular vote, with its winning margin ranging from a low of a lakh to over 3.5 lakh in 2014. This is the seat Digvijaya Singh, with the baggage of an anti-Hindu image, is fighting for.

Under the UAPA, the accused have been charged with being part of a terrorist act, and under IPC they have been charged with criminal conspiracy and murder.

India must know its enemies inside, their agenda. If we don’t, we will be doomed to make the same mistakes we have made in history, shrunk both in terms of culture and geography over centuries by ceding our space to predators

The Uttar Pradesh government recently initiated the process of withdrawing cases related to the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, which included hate speech cases against Sadhvi Prachi.