Fifth column: Giving Sadhvi Pragya a ticket to enter public life is puzzling and wrong | The Indian Express

Fifth column: Giving Sadhvi Pragya a ticket to enter public life is puzzling and wrong | The Indian Express

Written by Tavleen Singh |Updated: April 21, 2019 8:39:08 am

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Fifth column: Giving Sadhvi Pragya a ticket to enter public life is puzzling and wrong

In a more enlightened time, Sadhvi Pragya would not have been allowed to ‘preach religion’, leave alone be a member of the Lok Sabha. So to give her a ticket to enter public life is puzzling and wrong.

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur arrives at the Madhya Pradesh BJP headquarters in Bhopal (File PTI Photo)

As someone who believes, albeit a little hopelessly these days, that there will one day be an Indian renaissance, I lose hope when the Sadhvi Pragya-type Hindu looms up before me. People like her and Yogi Adityanath represent the very opposite of the truly magnificent idea of the Sanatan Dharma.