Congress leader and former union minister Saifuddin Soz on Saturday questioned BJP’s decision of fielding Praghya Thakur – an accused in Maleygaon bomb blasts – as the party candidate for the Lok Sabha from Bhopal.
“By fielding Thakur as a candidate for the Lok Sabha fromBhopal, the country will see PM Modi and Amit Shah in extremely poor light asthey have shown scant respect to the judicial process by fielding a terroraccused as a candidate from Bhopal,” Soz said in a statement issued here.
“Advocate Tahseen Poonawalla and film actress Swara Bhaskarhave rightly asked the judiciary to summon Praghya Thakur back to the jail asshe has violated the judicial order,” Soz said in a statement issued here.