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Writers, Academics and Activists Condemn Pragya Thakur’s Statement

bySAHMAT
May 18, 2019
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We are deeply shocked by the statement of Ms. Pragya Thakur, the BJP candidate for the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat, lauding Nathuram Godse the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi as a “deshbhakt”. This amounts to endorsing the murder of the Mahatma as an act of “deshbhakti” or patriotism. It is not enough for the BJP to distance itself from Ms.Thakur’s remarks, or to ask her to apologise. It is obvious that this is her position, no matter what she says to camouflage it for the time being.

What is equally shocking is the number of BJP functionaries who have come to defend Ms.Pragya Thakur’s remark. Unless the BJP leadership publicly apologizes for Ms.Thakur’s remark and takes punitive action against all those functionaries who are supporting her remark, the conclusion will be inescapable that we have a political party running the government today that does not believe in the anti-colonial struggle, in the values underlying the Constitution that came out of that struggle, and in the father of the nation that was forged in the course of that struggle.

 

Prabhat Patnaik              

 Vivan Sundaram                                

M.K. Raina

Irfan Habib                            

Amiya Kumar Bagchi                      

Sohail Hashmi

Madangopal Singh                 

Ram Rahman                                                 

Zoya Hasan

D. N. Jha                                

C.P. Bhambri                                     

Jayati Ghosh

C.P. Chandrasekhar               

Geeta Kapur                                       

Saeed Mirza

Sashi Kumar                           

Aban Raza                                         

Abhilasha Kumari

Aditya Mukherjee                  

Ahmar Raza                                       

Anil Sadgopal

Amar Farooqui                       

Anil Bhatti                                         

Anil Chandra

Anuradha Kapur                    

Archana Prasad                                  

Arjun Dev

Arpana Caur                           

Arunkumar H.G                                 

Asghar Wajahat

Asmita Aasaavari                   

Atlury Murali                                     

Badri Raina

Chanchal Chauhan                 

Praveen Jha                                        

Pulin Nayak

Pushpamala N.                       

Qurban Ali                                         

Radhika Menon

Rahul Verma                          

Raj Chauhan                                      

Rajinder Arora

Rajiv Gupta                            

Rajni Arora                                        

Ramakrishna Chatterjee  

Rekha Awasthi                      

Rimli Bhattacharya                            

Ritambhara Shastri

Roop Rekha Verma               

Saba Hasan                                        

Sanjeev Kumar

Dinesh Abrol                          

Geetha Mehra                                    

Shireen Moosvi

Indira Arjun Dev                   

Indira Chandrasekhar                        

Iqtidar Alam Khan   

Jennifer Mirza                       

 K. L. Tuteja                                        

K. M. Shrimali   

Keval Arora                           

Kumar Shahani                                  

Lata Singh

M.M.P. Singh                         

Madhu Prasad                                    

Maya John

Maya Krishna Rao                 

Mithu Sen                                          

Mohan Rao

Mridula Mukherjee                

N.K. Sharma                                        

Nadeem Rezavi

Nilima Sheikh                        

Nina Rao                                            

P.K. Shukla

Parthiv Shah                           

Shakti Kak                                       

 Sreelakshmi

Subir Sinha                             

Sudhir Chandra                                 

Sukirat Anand

Sukumar Murlidharan            

Sumangala Damodaran                      

Surendran Nair

Suvira Jaiswal                        

Tani Bhargava                                   

V. Ramakrishna

Vasundhara Chauhan             

Veer Munshi                                      

Vikas Rawal

Vishwamohan Jha                  

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