Pragya got cancer from torture in jail: Ramdev

April 27, 2019 10:37

After BJP chief Amit Shah, yoga guru Ramdev came out in support of Pragya Singh Thakur, the BJP candidate from Bhopal for the national elections.

Calling Pragya Thakur a "nationalist", Ramdev said she her alleged torture for nine years in jail stressed her out to the point she got diagnosed with cancer. Pragya Thakur is out on bail in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case.

Saying she was arrested on mere suspicion, Ramdev said she was tortured in jail "as if she was a terrorist".

"It was gunaah ki parakashtha (the height of atrocity). You arrest a person just on the basis of mere suspicion and make her undergo physical and mental torture for nine years. The stress that she had to endure weakened her physically and she got afflicted with cancer. She is not a terrorist but a nationalist lady," Ramdev told reporters.

Speaking on Pragya Thakur's recent controversial comments on 26/11 Mumbai blasts hero Hemant Karkare, Ramdev urged people to show her some empathy.

"We should show some empathy for the woman who and try to understand her ordeal and the bitterness it must have given rise to," he said.

Pragya Thakur had boasted that Hemant Karkare died because she had "cursed" him.

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