Sitaram Yechury Pragya Thakur over article 370, 35A

SRINAGAR, MAY 03 (PTK): Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Sitaram Yechury attacked Pragya Thakur, the BJP candidate from Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal. Yechury said the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata that she narrates are filled with instances of violence.

He said, “After the initial phases of elections, they came back to the core Hindutva abolition of Article 35A (that allows the Jammu and Kashmir state’s legislature to define “permanent resident” of the state) and section 370 (article that gives autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir), construction of Ram Mandir on the disputed sight, Uniform Civil Code and National Register of Citizens (NRC),” , adding  that on the back of such issues, the decision to bring in Pragya Thakur to contest from Bhopal after the third phase is a step taken “to hype the sentiments of the people.” (PTK)