BJP MP Pragya Thakur’s comments at a spiritual occasion in Shivamogga had evoked robust grievance from the competition parties.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Pragya Singh Thakur changed into on Wednesday booked over her alleged hate speech in Karnataka’s Shivamogga district.
The FIR has been registered towards Thakur on the premise of a criticism filed via way of means of HS Sundresh, Shivamogga District Congress Committee. Thakur, who represents Bhopal withinside the Lok Sabha, has been booked below IPC sections – 153A, 153B, 268, 295A, 298, 504 and 508.
Speaking on the Hindu Jagarana Vedike’s South Region annual conference in Shivamogga on Sunday, Thakur had referred to as at the network to hold their knives sharp.
“Keep guns for your homes, if not anything else, as a minimum knives used to reduce vegetables, sharp…Don’t realize what state of affairs will stand up when….Everyone has the proper to self protection. If a person infiltrates our residence and assaults us, giving a befitting replay is our proper”, she had said.
“Love jihad, they’ve a way of life of jihad, if not anything they do love jihad. Even in the event that they love they do jihad in that. We (Hindus) too love, love the god, a sanyasi loves his god,” Thakur had added.
The FIR towards the debatable lawmaker comes day after lawsuits had been filed via way of means of Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale and Tehseen Poonawalla.