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Pragya Singh's arrest sparks war of words
Everyone 'rush' to disown her??
"I am shocked and it is shameful that the BJP is disowning her and all their organisations are disowning her. When they wanted, they used her," Uma Bharti
New Delhi: The arrest of a sadhvi in connection with the Malegaon blasts triggered political charges and counter-charges in the Sangh Parivar with BJP accused of disowning her.Attacking the BJP, Bhartiya Janshakti Party chief Uma Bharti expressed "shock" that the party and its affiliated organisations were "disowning" 38-year-old Pragya Singh Thakur, the sadhvi, who is suspected to have links with right-wing Hindu Jagaran Manch.
"I am shocked and it is shameful that the BJP is disowning her and all their organisations are disowning her. When they wanted, they used her," she said, asking BJP President Rajnath Singh to be "courageous enough".
Bharti recalled having met Pragya in the late 90s during elections in Bhopal. "At that time, she was working for ABVP," she said, adding after that she had heard Pragya had become a sanyasin.
Countering Bharti, BJP spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad said "there is no question of owning or disowning her. She left ABVP in 1995-96".
BJP, he said, "has made it clear that anyone who is responsible, the law must take its course, provide evidence, let the action be taken. Even her father has said that if she is responsible, the action should be taken".
Referring to the Batla House encounter in Jamia Nagar here, Prasad said, "We don't talk about any probe about the Jamia (incident) during which a courageous police officer died. We always say take tough action against terrorism. Terrorism has no religion".
He further said "the way media is painting 'Hindu terror' is something we take offence to. Because I see double standards of media evident there".
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From: ggjey <ggjey@prodigy.net >
Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Subject: The sadvi screaming
To: indiaunity
From: ggjey <ggjey@prodigy.
Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Subject: The sadvi screaming
To: indiaunity
(Another TV channel showed a video footage where the "Sadhvi" is screaming that non-violence is the message from a eunuch (one castrated of manhood, "napungshak").
There is hardly any scope for doubt whom she is alluding to.
And the values(sic) that she and her likes nurture.)
This has become a major problem in Hinduism. Many neo-Hindus, icluding many women, think it right to attack others to protect dharma or waht they think as dharma.
They have the example of Krishna saying to Arjuna to fight his relations for dharama.
They have the slogans of Swami Vivekananda.
They think violence is right and allowed by their religion.
They forget that we are not Krishnas or Arjunas and we live in the modern world, where every individual has his rights. Nobody has any right to violate that.
Moreover, attacking helpless fellow citizens will not bring any glory to dharma.
There is hardly any scope for doubt whom she is alluding to.
And the values(sic) that she and her likes nurture.)
This has become a major problem in Hinduism. Many neo-Hindus, icluding many women, think it right to attack others to protect dharma or waht they think as dharma.
They have the example of Krishna saying to Arjuna to fight his relations for dharama.
They have the slogans of Swami Vivekananda.
They think violence is right and allowed by their religion.
They forget that we are not Krishnas or Arjunas and we live in the modern world, where every individual has his rights. Nobody has any right to violate that.
Moreover, attacking helpless fellow citizens will not bring any glory to dharma.
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