Sadhvi Pragya gets clean chit from NIA court to contest LS elections

Bhopal, April 24: A special NIA court on Wednesday rejected a plea seeking to bar Sadhvi Pragya from contesting the Lok Sabha elections. The court said it doesn't have legal powers to bar anyone from contesting polls. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) didn't oppose her nomination.

 

"In ongoing elections, this Court does not have any legal powers to prohibit anyone from contesting elections. It is the job of electoral officers to decide. This court can't stop the accused number 1 (Pragya Thakur Singh) from contesting elections, this application is negated," the special NIA court said.

In her reply filed before the NIA court, Pragya also said, "There is no provision in the Representation of Peoples Act 1951, which disqualifies the candidate from contesting elections if a criminal case is pending against him/her."

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, who is widely believed to be one of the victims of the Congress party’s attempt to invent Hindu Terror, has officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. She will be contesting the Lok Sabha Elections from Bhopal against Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on a BJP ticket. The NIA had given her a clean chit in the Malegaon Blasts case in 2016 after years of brutal torture in prison.