BJP candidate Pragya Singh Thakur on Thursday said Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse “was, is and will remain a patriot”, stunning a nation that thought it had seen it all during a no-holds-barred election campaign that is winding to a close. “Nathuram Godse deshbhakt thay, hain aur rahenge (Nathuram Godse was, is and will remain a patriot). Such people will get a fitting response this election,” Pragya told the news agency ANI. Instead of the apology, what came initially was a statement that she accepted the BJP line. In our country Bhagwan Sri Krishna is called Sudarshan Chakradhari Mohan and Mahatma Gandhi is called Charkadhari Mohan.

Source: The Telegraph May 17, 2019 01:30 UTC