Malegaon case a Congress conspiracy: Sadhvi Pragya gets rousing welcome in Bhopal
"The Congress has always adopted appeasement politics for Muslims. They tortured Hindus in every manner, jailed them and slapped false cases on them. They called it 'saffron terror' and 'Hindutva terror'. Congress harbours such a petty mindset. This was a conspiracy by Congress, and this qualifies as treason," Pragya said.Six people were killed and around 100 injured when an explosive device strapped to a motorcycle went off in Malegaon, a town with a sizeable Muslim population, on September 29, 2008.Seventeen years later, a special NIA court acquitted all the seven accused, including Pragya Thakur, for failing to establish the allegations beyond reasonable doubt.With several individuals linked to Hindu right-wing groups being arrested in the case, some Congress leaders attempted to establish a narrative of "saffron terror".'FORCED TO NAME MODI, YOGI ADITYANATH'However, Pragya said that truth had triumphed, and the verdict had "blackened" the faces of anti-nationals and traitors who raised the "saffron terror" bogey."The faces of anti-nationals and traitors have been blackened... This is a slap in the faces of those who called it 'saffron terror'. Truth has triumphed. Dharma and truth were on our side," she further said.Pragya, who started her political innings with the ABVP, the RSS's student wing, also reiterated that she was tortured and forced to name Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath in the case by the investigators."I was forced. There was a lot of pressure on me to name big people, but I did not break, didn't falsely implicate anyone... So, I was tortured a lot," she said.- EndsMust Watch
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