“Didn’t call Godse a patriot”: Pragya Thakur, apologised for her controversial remarks

<p>Pragya Singh Thakur, the BJP’s Bhopal lawmaker, who got into controversy when she called Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse a deshbhakt (patriot). She will have to apologise again, it was decided at a meeting of floor leaders called by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday, people familiar with the matter said. The 49-year-old Bhopal […]</p>

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“Didn’t call Godse a patriot”: Pragya Thakur, apologised for her controversial remarks

Pragya Singh
Thakur, the BJP’s Bhopal lawmaker, who got into controversy when she called
Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse a deshbhakt (patriot).

She will
have to apologise again, it was decided at a meeting of floor leaders called by
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday, people familiar with the matter said.

The
49-year-old Bhopal MP had apologised for her controversial remarks earlier on
Friday morning before launching a direct attack at her detractors.

Pragya
Thakur, who read out a one-page statement in Hindi in the Lok Sabha, had also
insisted that her one-line call had been twisted to attack her.

The apology
was meant to curb the row that erupted in Parliament and sparked national
outrage over the BJP lawmaker’s remarks.

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