3 BJP leaders to explain Godse remark within 10 days: Amit Shah

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New Delhi: Going on a full-on damage control mode, BJP President Amit Shah on Friday asked Pragya Singh Thakur, Union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde and Nalin Kumar Kateel for an explanation within 10 days. All three of them had made rash comments in favour of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse, just two days before the final round of voting for the national election.

It is important to note here that all three of them are contesting elections.

Pragya Singh Thakur, the BJP candidate from Bhopal, had yesterday described Godse, who killed Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, as a “deshbhakt (patriot)”.

Today, Nalin Kumar Kateel, a BJP lawmaker compared Godse with former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, who has been a chief target of the ruling party in the national election campaign nearly 30 years after his assassination.

Another Karnataka parliamentarian, Union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde, tweeted that “seven decades later, the condemned were being heard”.

Both the tweets have vanished from their Twitter timelines. Hegde put out a message claiming his account had been breached.

“Godse killed one, Kasab killed 72, Rajiv Gandhi killed 17,000. You judge who is more cruel in this??” – Nalin Kateel tweeted on Thursday, even as Pragya Thakur’s comment generated outrage and condemnation.

While the BJP distanced itself from these comments, BJP President Amit Shah took to Twitter to express the party’s view in the matter and asked the three of them for a reply.

Also Read: BJP’s Pragya Singh Thakur calls Nathuram Godse a ‘Patriot’

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