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Pragya Thakur’s candidature ‘satyagraha against fake case of fake bhagwa terror’, says Amit Shah in Modi’s maiden ‘press conference’

Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, in his first ever press conference, talked about elections, his last five years as prime minister and his experience while campaigning for the ongoing elections.

Flanked by BJP President Amit Shah, Modi exuded confidence about winning the elections.

Amit Shah while addressing the press said that Pragya Thakur’s candidature is a ‘satyagraha against a fake case of fake Bhagwa terror’.

“…ask Congress, some people were earlier arrested in ‘Samjhauta Express’ (bombing case) who were related to Lashkar e Toiba. A fake case of “bhagwa terror” was made in which the accused have been acquitted,” Shah said.

Modi while addressing the press said, “we will start work as soon as possible on the promises made in our manifesto once we come to power again”.

“It has not happened often in our country that a government with full majority returns once again with a majority,” he said.

Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, BJP’s Bhopal candidate facing trial under terror charges for the Malegaon 2008 attack in which 6 people were killed, Aseemanand is also named.

In December 2010, the CBI had arrested Aseemanand (Naba Kumar Sarkar), who had confessed before a magistrate that the Malegaon blasts of 2006 and 2008 were carried out by radical Hindu groups as “revenge against jihadi terrorism”.

In the case in which Sadhvi Pragya is facing trial, Aseemanand had said that the plan to target Muslims was hatched by a group led by former RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi.

He had said the group was behind the Samjhauta Express, Ajmer Dargah and Mecca Masjid blasts of 2007. Aseemanand subsequently retracted his statement, and has now been acquitted of all charges.

Pakistan has said it is considering to move international forums against the acquittal of the 2007 Samjhauta train blast case suspects that left 68 people, mostly Pakistanis, dead.

The blast in Samjhauta Express took place near Panipat in Haryana on February 18, 2007, when the train was on its way to Attari in Amritsar, the last railway station on the Indian side.

 

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