JP Nadda stated that Sadhvi Pragya has been dropped from the defence panel and will be barred from attending the party's parliamentary meets for the winter session.
Controversial Mirchi baba had performed a Yagna by burning 5 quintals of red chilly ahead of the Lok Sabha elections to help senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh win from Bhopal. During this Yagna, he had vowed to take ‘jal samadhi’ if Singh loses.
NIA had claimed in its 2013 charge sheet that Lokesh Sharma, Dhan Singh, Rajendra Chaudhary and Manoj Narwariya, the members of Abhinav Bharat, were behind the Malegaon blast in 2006.