00:00We had a lot of bad stories.
00:02With Savi Pragya Singh Thakur, former BJP MP, acquitted in 2025 along with six others in the Malagao blast case.
00:12Her story begins in Bheend, Madhya Pradesh.
00:15Born in a strict RSS household, her father Chandrapal Singh Thakur was a lifelong swayam sevak.
00:22From childhood, saffron wasn't just a colour, it was discipline, identity, ideology.
00:27She was a tomboy they say.
00:29Road bikes, kept her hair short, joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad in college.
00:33In her 30s, she took Sanyas and became Sadhvi Pragya.
00:39Then came the darkest chapter of her public life.
00:4229th September 2008, Malagao.
00:45During Ramzaan, a bomb exploded near Bhiku Chauk after Friday prayers.
00:49Six people were killed, over a hundred injured.
00:52The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, ATS, called it an act of terror.
00:56The blast was traced to a motorcycle registered in Pragya Thakur's name.
01:00In 2004, I was bought that motorcycle.
01:03She was arrested, accused of being a key conspirator.
01:06Linked to Abhinav Bharat, a fringe extremist group,
01:09she allegedly co-founded with Colonel Parohit, a serving army officer.
01:13The 2009 charge sheet, called it a case of Hindu terror.
01:16In 2017, Pragya Thakur got bail on health crowns after nearly nine years in jail.
01:20She stayed out, still on trial, but no longer in custody.
01:23And that's when the political arc began.
01:26In 2017, Pragya Thakur got bail on health crowns after nearly nine years in jail.
01:32She stayed out, still on trial, but no longer in custody.
01:36And that's when the political arc began.
01:38In 2019, BJP gave her a ticket from Bhopal, even as she faced terror charges.
01:49Then came the line that made headlines.
01:51Even PM Narendra Modi distanced himself.
01:58She stayed in the race and won.
02:00But in 2024, the BJP dropped her and she didn't get a ticket.
02:03Then in 2025, the court acquitted her.
02:06The Malikau case, the one that made her infamous, was closed.
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