An Indian candidate called Mahatma Gandhi’s killer a patriot. Modi must drop her now.

[TomSea]

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An Indian candidate called Mahatma Gandhi’s killer a patriot. Modi must drop her now.
By Barkha Dutt
May 16 at 7:50 PM

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Modi and his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, have fallen back on some of the coarsest rhetoric that India’s elections have ever seen. And just when you thought it could not possibly get any worse, it has.

On Thursday, a BJP candidate, Pragya Singh Thakur — who is accused of participating in a 2008 terrorist attack in which at least six people, all Muslims, were killed — defended the man who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. She called Nathuram Godse a “deshbhakt,” or “patriot.”

After the BJP distanced itself from her statement, she issued a reluctant retraction. But given how passionately Modi himself has defended her candidacy, this is simply not good enough. Thakur is a blot on India’s democracy. If Modi does not withdraw her as a nominee now, it will stain his reputation as well.

Read more at:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/16/an-indian-candidate-called-mahatma-gandhis-killer-patriot-modi-must-drop-her-now/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2f1629655f82

All very fascinating.

[GtHawk]

I don't see why she should withdraw, hell look at our democrats and what they say and in some cases have done and nobody made them withdraw?