BJP MP Pragya Thakur on Friday tendered an apology in Lok Sabha for her comments calling Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse “a patriot”. Replying on her remarks, the Bhopal MP said she respects “Mahatma Gandhi’s contribution to the nation.”
Thakur also alleged that her statement was distorted and she was dubbed a terrorist despite being acquitted by a court.
“A member of the House referred to me as ‘terrorist’. It is an attack on my dignity. No charges against me have been proven in court,” she said.
The BJP lawmaker was alluding to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who had yesterday attacked Thakur for her controversial statement. “Terrorist Pragya calls terrorist Godse, a patriot. A sad day, in the history of India’s Parliament,” Rahul Gandhi had said in a tweet.
