Pragya Singh Thakur faces charge­s relate­d to the attack that killed six people in Malega­on cityNEW DELHI: The ruling party of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Wednesday it will field a candidate accused of involvement in a deadly 2008 bomb blast in the country’s ongoing national election. Pragya Singh Thakur, a 48-year-old female monk, is out on bail while she faces charges related to the attack that killed six people. She announced Wednesday that she will run for a seat in the city of Bhopal on the ticket of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Her candidacy in Bhopal, a BJP stronghold constituency in a key heartland state, is expected to polarise local voters. The BJP, meanwhile, has focus on Modi’s key social schemes and a hardline nationalist stance.

Source: The Express Tribune April 17, 2019 15:45 UTC