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After Basketball Video, BJP MP Pragya Thakur Filmed Dancing At Wedding; Told Court She Was Unwell

After a video that went viral where she can be seen playing basketball, the latest video is from a twin wedding of young women from poor families. Pragya Thakur, 51, is seen shaking a leg at the celebration and asking people to join in. Notably, she has ducked court appearances in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case citing ill health.

A video of BJP MP from Bhopal Sadhvi Pragya Thakur went viral where she can be seen dancing at a wedding she helped organize at her residence. Congress leaders have criticized the leader who has ducked court appearances in the Malegaon blasts case citing ill health.

After a video that went viral where Thakur can be seen playing basketball, the latest video is from a twin wedding of young women from poor families. Pragya Thakur, 51, is seen shaking a leg at the celebration and asking people to join in.

The brides told reporters that they were “very happy” and felt blessed.

The father of one of the brides, a daily-wage worker, said he was grateful to the Bhopal MP as he didn’t have the means to organize his daughter’s wedding.

“I feel like I have been given a second life. I am very poor. I did not have enough to marry my daughters. But Pragya Thakur helped us. I pray to the mother goddess for her long life. I am very happy and grateful,” he told reporters, NDTV reported.

“Whenever we see the Bhopal MP, sister Pragya Thakur, play basketball and walking without support or dancing happily like this, it makes us happy…?” tweeted Narendra Saluja, a Congress spokesperson in Madhya Pradesh.

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Last week, Saluja had also had shared a video of Pragya Thakur shooting a basket and had written: “We had only just seen Bhopal MP Pragya Thakur in a wheelchair but today, we feel very happy to see her trying her hand at basketball at the Bhopal stadium…So far we knew she couldn’t walk or even stand properly because of an injury…? May god always keep her healthy…”

Six people were killed and over 100 others injured when an explosive device strapped on a motorcycle went off near a mosque in Malegaon in 2008, a town about 200 km from Mumbai in north Maharashtra.

Pragya Thakur, known for her controversial remarks is accused in the case and out on bail. She was in jail for nine years before she was granted bail in 2017. Thakur then fought the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bhopal on a BJP ticket.

 

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