Ideology of Gandhi’s Killer Won: Digvijaya Singh After LS Defeat
BJP’s Pragya Thakur got 8,66,482 votes in the Bhopal constituency.
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, who lost to BJP's Pragya Singh Thakur from Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency, has expressed his “concern”, saying the ideology of Mahatma Gandhi's killer won while that of Gandhi lost in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls.
"Today in this country, the ideology of the killer of Mahatma Gandhi won and the ideology of Gandhi lost. This is a cause of concern for me," news agency ANI quoted Singh as saying on Friday, 24 May, a day after the Lok Sabha election results were announced.
She was recently in the news for lauding Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse as a "patriot".
Thakur got 8,66,482 votes in the constituency, considered a stronghold of BJP, against her nearest rival Digvijaya Singh of the Congress. Singh got 5,01,279 votes.
Thakur also had to apologise for her remarks on Hemant Karkare, the IPS officer killed during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, that she had "cursed" him for torturing her and falsely implicating her in the Malegaon case.
She was temporarily banned from campaigning for her hate remarks by the Election Commission.
Congress's Digvijaya Singh is not new to controversies either.
In March this year, just as the country was gearing up for elections, he had said that the Pulwama terror attack was an "accident".
(With inputs from ANI and PTI)
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