<p class="title">BJPs Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, who recently kicked up a row with some of her remarks and was observing silence for 63 hours as a mark of penance, on Thursday broke the vow to express her elation over poll trends which showed her in the lead.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thakur expressed happiness over the Lok Sabha poll trends which showed her ahead of her nearest Congress rival Digvijay Singh by over 90,000 votes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I am happy with the people's response," she told reporters at her home and waved to people and her supporters who were chanting "Jai Shri Ram".</p>.<p class="bodytext">A beaming Thakur was seen waving to the supporters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, Monday apologized for the controversial remarks and set out to observe silence to do some "soul searching".</p>.<p class="bodytext">She had last week lauded Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse as a "patriot", sparking furious debate in the last lap of the seven-phase elections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Congress alleged that "insulting martyrs is in the DNA" of the BJP, which also condemned her remarks.</p>.<p>MUST READ | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/liveblog/lok-sabha-election-results-2019-live-updates-counting-of-votes-to-begin-at-8-am-735411.html">Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 LIVE Updates</a></p>.<p>ALSO READ | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/liveblog/karnataka-lok-sabha-election-results-live-counting-of-votes-begins-bjp-leading-735262.html">Karnataka Lok Sabha Election Results LIVE</a></p>.<p>MUST READ | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/liveblog/assembly-election-results-2019-live-updates-counting-begins-for-andhra-odisha-tamil-nadu-735414.html">Assembly Election Results 2019 LIVE Updates</a></p>.<p class="bodytext">She also earlier said that she had "cursed" 26/11 attack martyr, IPS officer Hemant Karkare, for torturing her and falsely implicating her in the blast case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week said he will never forgive Thakur for insulting Mahatma Gandhi. </p>
<p class="title">BJPs Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, who recently kicked up a row with some of her remarks and was observing silence for 63 hours as a mark of penance, on Thursday broke the vow to express her elation over poll trends which showed her in the lead.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thakur expressed happiness over the Lok Sabha poll trends which showed her ahead of her nearest Congress rival Digvijay Singh by over 90,000 votes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I am happy with the people's response," she told reporters at her home and waved to people and her supporters who were chanting "Jai Shri Ram".</p>.<p class="bodytext">A beaming Thakur was seen waving to the supporters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, Monday apologized for the controversial remarks and set out to observe silence to do some "soul searching".</p>.<p class="bodytext">She had last week lauded Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse as a "patriot", sparking furious debate in the last lap of the seven-phase elections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Congress alleged that "insulting martyrs is in the DNA" of the BJP, which also condemned her remarks.</p>.<p>MUST READ | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/liveblog/lok-sabha-election-results-2019-live-updates-counting-of-votes-to-begin-at-8-am-735411.html">Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 LIVE Updates</a></p>.<p>ALSO READ | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/liveblog/karnataka-lok-sabha-election-results-live-counting-of-votes-begins-bjp-leading-735262.html">Karnataka Lok Sabha Election Results LIVE</a></p>.<p>MUST READ | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/liveblog/assembly-election-results-2019-live-updates-counting-begins-for-andhra-odisha-tamil-nadu-735414.html">Assembly Election Results 2019 LIVE Updates</a></p>.<p class="bodytext">She also earlier said that she had "cursed" 26/11 attack martyr, IPS officer Hemant Karkare, for torturing her and falsely implicating her in the blast case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week said he will never forgive Thakur for insulting Mahatma Gandhi. </p>