“A Shudra feels bad if we call them Shudra, what is the reason? Because they don’t understand,” the BJP MP from Bhopal asked.
On Sunday, BJP MP from Bhopal Pragya Thakur, hit out at Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the attack on BJP president JP Nadda’s convoy in West Bengal, saying that the Trinamool Congress leader “has gone mad”.
“She (Mamata Banerjee) has come to understand that this is India and not Pakistan. Hindus are prepared to protect India. They will give a befitting reply (to her). BJP will win the Assembly polls in that state and there will be a Hindu raj in West Bengal,” Pragya Thakur told media in Sehore.
“She is frustrated because she has realised that her rule is about to end,” Thakur said, adding, “She has gone mad.”
The Lok Sabha member from Bhopal, in another controversial statement, cited dharmashastras (religious texts), claiming a ”shudra” (fourth and lowest of the traditional varnas as per these scriptures) feels bad for lack of understanding.
“A kshatriya doesn’t feel bad if we call them kshatriya. A brahmin doesn’t feel bad if we call them brahmin. A vaishya doesn’t feel bad if we call them vaishya. But a shudra feels bad if we call them shudra, what is the reason? Because they don’t understand,” the BJP MP asked.
Pragya Thakur is not new to controversies. Accused in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast, she went on to defeat former MP chief minister Digvijaya Singh by over 3.64 lakh votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, and often stays in news for her extreme and controversial takes.
Despite reprimanded by the Prime Minister last year in May for her remarks over Mahatma Gandhi, where PM said in a TV interview that he’d “never be able to forgive her” for her remarks, the MP from Madhya Pradesh continues to make controversial statements.
During a debate in Lok Sabha, Pragya Thakur referred to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as a deshbhakt (patriot), triggering a protest by opposition members.
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