'Unfit for society': Modi slams Pragya Thakur on Godse 'deshbhakt' comment

Pragya said the comment was her personal view and expressed regret for hurting sentiments. She apologised later

In a huge controversy over comments by BJP leaders glorifying Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse, including by Pragya Singh Thakur, who called him a “deshbhakt (patriot)”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told television channel News24 today: “I will never be able to forgive them for insulting Bapu.”

On Thursday, Pragya Thakur had said: “Nathuram Godse was a deshbhakt (patriot), is a ‘deshbhakt’ and will remain a ‘deshbhakt’. People calling him a terrorist should instead look within, such people will be given a fitting reply in the election.”

The BJP tweeted PM Modi as saying in an interview to the channel: “The comments on