RSS deploys 5 leaders to manage Sadhvi Pragya campaign

The Asian Age.

India, Politics

The party leadership changed her campaign advisors, believed to be at the behest of the RSS.

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur

Bhopal: Days after BJP’s nominee for the prestigious Bhopal Lok Sabha seat Pragya Singh Thakur, whose poll fray has helped the saffron outfit to bring into focus its Hindutva plank in the ongoing elections in the country, triggered outrage with controversial comments, the party leadership changed her campaign advisors, believed to be at the behest of the RSS.

A senior BJP leader disclosed to this newspaper here that a team of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) which was earlier managing her campaign has been replaced by a five-member campaign management team comprising three RSS men and two BJP leaders.

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