Sadhvi Pragya justifies her candidature from Bhopal, breaks down alleging 'torture' in jail

As BJP announced Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur as its candidate from the Bhopal constituency, controversy triggered as the leader is currently out on bail and has been accused of Malegaon blast in 2008.

While justifying her candidature from the Bhopal seat, Sadhvi Pragya held a press conference on Thursday evening and narrated her ordeal which she suffered in the jail and termed it as a ‘torture’ by the authorities and further added that she was implicated by the previous government (Congress led UPA regime) and she will not hold back in justifying the cause and prove the charges of ‘saffron terror’ a wrong one.

Sadhvi, who has served nine years in jail, is currently out on bail on the grounds of poor health. She said that “When they took me away illegally, they kept me for 13 days. On the first day itself, they started beating me. When they used to hit me with a belt, the entire nervous system used to go blank. They used to beat me day and night. They wanted me to say that I had a hand in the blast. They used to beat me till the early hours of morning. Those who beat me used to change but I would be their constant target.”