"I felt that the enemies of the country were being benefited from it, therefore I take back my statement and apologize for it, it was my personal pain," Sadhvi Pragya said.
Facing sheer criticism over her remarks on 26/11 martyr Hemant Karkare, BJP leader and party's candidate from Bhopal in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election, Sadhvi Pragya Friday apologised and took back her comments. Saying that if her remarks boast enemies and make them happy then she takes them back.
"Whatever I had said, that was my personal suffering ... which I had shared. If my enemies are boasted due to my comments then I take them back and apologise too," Sadhvi Pragya said.
"I felt that the enemies of the country were being benefited from it, therefore I take back my statement and apologize for it, it was my personal pain."
After tendering an apology for her remarks on Mumbai ATS Chief late Hemant Karkare, Sadhvi Pragya said, "He (Hemant Karkare) died from the bullets of terrorists from the enemy country, he is certainly a martyr."
Malegaon blast accused and BJP's Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has claimed police officer Hemant Karkare died during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks as she "cursed" him for torturing her.
Addressing BJP workers in Bhopal Thursday night, Pragya had also claimed that Karkare had "made up his mind" not to release her from custody.
"Hemant Karkare was called by the (blast) probe panel member to Mumbai. I was then in a Mumbai jail. The commission member told him that if he didn't have any proof against me, he should not unlawfully hold me in jail," she said.
"But he (Karkare) said he will do anything to bring the proof...Will do anything...will create it, bring it from here and there, but will not release Sadhvi," she said.
Karkare was killed along with two other senior police officers while fighting terrorists during the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in November 2008.
The BJP on Wednesday fielded Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur from Bhopal seat, where she is set to have a direct contest with Congress heavyweight and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh.
(With inputs from PTI)
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