Bhopal: BJP's Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, who recently found herself in a row with some of her remarks, on Monday apologised for it and said she is observing "silence" for 63 hours as a mark of penance. Pragya Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case,
said she felt it was now time for some "soul searching".

The BJP leader last week courted controversy by calling Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse a "patriot". Prior to it, she claimed that the then Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare was killed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks due to her "curse".