One of the most closely watched electoral battles in 2019 will be Bhopal, where the BJP has fielded terror-accused Pragya Singh Thakur against the Congress’s Digvijaya Singh. The 49-year-old is an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, in which 6 people were killed. She has alleged Digvijaya Singh conspired to falsely implicate her in the Malegaon blast case and called him an “anti-Hindu leader who called Hindus terrorists”. Thakur’s candidacy came just weeks after Narendra Modi said Congress had coined the term ‘Hindu terror’. “Those who conspired to malign the Sanatan Dharm — and Hindutva by coining the term ‘saffron terror’ have acted as anti-national.

Source: Huffington Post May 09, 2019 13:04 UTC