Sadhvi Pragya backtracks from ‘Godse a patriot’ remark following backlash within BJP

May 16, 2019

Shajapur (Madhya Pradesh), May 16 (ANI): BJP leader and candidate from Bhopal, Sadhvi Pragya, who invited controversy for terming Nathuram Godse a ‘patriot’, backtracked from her comment after facing backlash within the party, which asked her to publicly apologise. Pragya said, “She is a BJP worker and party’s line is her line.” Earlier in the day, when asked to respond on Kamal Haasan’s ‘first Hindu terrorist’ remark on Godse, Pragya had said that Godse was, is and will remain a ‘deshbhakt’.