Click to play videoNew Delhi: Bhartiya Janta Party and RSS have rejected the evidence against Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur — who, along with five others, was produced before the Nashik court on Monday — as political conspiracy.
“There is no credible evidence against her,” BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad says.
The prosecution — for the first time on Monday — recounted excerpts from a conversation that allegedly took place between the Sadhvi and a co-accused, Ramnarayan Singh alias Ramjee. Ramjee is accused of planting the bombs.
Excerpts from the tape:
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur: They will take me away this evening.
Ramnarayan Singh: Why?
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur: They’ve found my car in the Malegaon blast case.
Ramnarayan Singh: But you sold that car.
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur: Where did I sell it? Madhya Pradesh? Gujarat? Maharashtra?
Ramnarayan Singh: Tell them Gujarat.
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur: What do I tell them if they ask me when?
Ramnarayan Singh: Say you don’t remember.
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur: But why did so few people died? Why didn’t you park the car in a crowed area?
Ramnarayan Singh: I had identified a crowded area but I couldn’t find a parking place there, and the area where I parked it wasn’t very crowded. Anyway, we’ll with it if something happens. I have already spoken to Arvindji. He said he’ll gather at least lakh people and protest.
But the BJP and the RSS continue to remain defiant.
“The whole campaign against Hindu organizations is calumnious and utterly baseless,” RSS leader Ram Madhav says.
The revelations in the Malegaon blast case may have helped Congress neutralise any negative undercurrent after the Batla house encounter, but the party has so far refrained from directly attacking the saffron outfit on the issue.
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