EC seeks report after BJP candidate Sadhvi Pragya's terrorist jibe at Digvijaya

Pragya has been making several controversial remarks ever since party has picked her for BJP candidate from Bhopal.

New Delhi: A day after Bharatiya Janta Party Bhopal Candidate Sadhvi Pragya Thakur spurred controversy by addressing senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh ‘terrorist’, The election Commission took cognizance of the same and sought a report on her statement from district collector. While addressing a public gathering, Pragya said “Uma didi defeated Digvijaya 16 years ago, and Digvijaya couldn’t show his face for 16 years, and couldn’t dare to do more politics, now again when he raised his head, another saint has come against him, this is a result of his bad deeds”. Pragya has been making several controversial remarks ever since party has picked her for BJP candidate from Bhopal. Fatima Rasool Siddique, the BJP's lone Muslim candidate in the last year's Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, Thursday announced she will not campaign for Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, the saffron party's Lok Sabha nominee from Bhopal. Siddique, who unsuccessfully contested Assembly polls from the Bhopal North seat in November last year, said some of the statements given by Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon bomb blast case of 2008, after her candidature was announced were "communal and obnoxious". "I won't campaign for her as she has made statements like waging a `dharm yudh' (crusade). Her controversial statement against former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare, a martyr who laid down his life fighting terrorists in the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, has also hurt me badly," the 35-year-old told media.