Swara Bhasker asks how Pragya Thakur still MP; ‘Mother of democracy killing…’

Actor Swara Bhasker said the ‘mother of democracy is killing her own child’ as Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as an MP following his conviction in a 2019 defamation case.

Amid the strong voice of protest against Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from the Lok Sabha following his conviction by a Surat court in a 2019 defamation case, Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker wondered how come Pragya Singh Thakur, Sadhvi Pragya, a key accused in the Malegaon blast case is still a member of Parliament. "Achhe din is when a terror-accused has the full freedom to incite arson and violence," Swara Bhasker tweeted. Once such news that an opposition leader has been disqualified from Parliament came from Russia Turkey, the actor said. "Today India is one of those countries where a democratically elected government and its system is destroying democracy itself," Swara Bhasker wrote.

Swara Bhasker said India is becoming like Russia and Turkey after Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as an MP.

"Hello World! Mother of Democracy is killing her own child," Swara tweeted.

All opposition parties condemned the decision while the Congress plans to launch a countrywide protest. Arvind Kejriwal, Mamata Banerjee, K Chandrashekar Rao, MK Stalin, Hemant Soren, Sharad Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav, Uddhav Thackeray extended support to Rahul Gandhi. The BJP, on the other hand, said the suspension has been according to the law. "In all these years as an MP he participated in only 21 debates. He never even brought a single private member's bill, but openly teared the ordinance of his own government by calling it non-sense. Rahul Gandhi considers himself above the parliament, the government, the judicial system and the country," Union minister Anurag Thakur said.