Congress president Rahul Gandhi hit out at the BJP over the remarks of its Bhopal candidate Pragya Thakur for calling Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse “a patriot.”I finally got it. — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 17, 2019Reacting to the statement of Kamal Haasan, who called Godse “the first Hindu terrorist of independent India”, Pragya Thakur had said: “Nathuram Godse was a ‘deshbhakt’, is a deshbhakt and will remain a deshbhakt. My statement has been twisted by the media.”Hours earlier, according to news agency ANI, Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde had backed Nathuram Godse in a tweet. Another BJP leader from Madhya Pradesh, Anil Saumitra, created controversy by saying that “Mahatma Gandhi was Pakistan’s father of the nation”. Criticising the statements made by Pragya Thakur, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this kind of a language could not tolerated in a civilized society.

Source: Hindustan Times May 17, 2019 10:41 UTC