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Thakur has been in the eye of the storm after the BJP fielded the terror accused from Bhopal for the Lok Sabha election. Following her nomination, Pragya Thakur has been making news through a slew of controversial statements. Now, she has purportedly said that former Defence minister and Goa CM Manohar Parrikar died of cancer because he allowed beef consumption in the state. She has also supposedly said that her party will ban beef in Goa, Northeast and South India.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-29-at-3.44.26-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-29-at-3.44.26-PM.png 622w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-29-at-3.44.26-PM-249x300.png 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above tweet by a handle, <em>@DigitalAtheist_<\/em> has been retweeted over 460 times since it was posted in the morning of April 29. It has now been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DigitalAtheist_\/status\/1122746590236536837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deleted<\/a>. It has been quote-tweeted by journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bainjal\/status\/1122757150495760384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swati Chaturvedi<\/a>, whose tweet has in turn been retweeted over 430 times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34843\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/swatipragya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/swatipragya.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/swatipragya-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/swatipragya-260x210.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chaturvedi later tweeted a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bainjal\/status\/1122784496351186944?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> clarification<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Am deleting this after Vivek has pointed this out <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TUSuZSzKCJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/TUSuZSzKCJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Swati Chaturvedi (@bainjal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bainjal\/status\/1122784496351186944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Facebook, the same was posted by a page <em>News Today Channel <\/em>on April 27.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/newstodaychannelhyd\/posts\/371273700148506\" data-width=\"auto\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/newstodaychannelhyd\/posts\/371273700148506\"><p>We will totally ban Beef in Goa, North-East &amp; South India, if BJP comes to power. Manohar Parrikar died of cancer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/newstodaychannelhyd\/\">News Today Channel<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/newstodaychannelhyd\/posts\/371273700148506\">Saturday, April 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/newstodaychannelhyd\/posts\/371273700148506\" data-width=\"auto\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<h2><strong>No record of Pragya having made this statement<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Alt News did not come across a single credible news article which had reported this statement supposedly made by Sadhvi Pragya Thakur.\u00a0The source of the\u00a0 statement in question, wherein Sadhvi Pragya speaks ill of Manohar Parrikar, is a website called <a href=\"https:\/\/indiascoops.com\/will-totally-ban-beef-in-states-like-goa-north-east-if-bjp-comes-to-power-at-the-centre-sadhvi-pragya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>IndiaScoops<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34855\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190429-154812_01-868x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"868\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190429-154812_01-868x1024.jpg 868w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190429-154812_01-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190429-154812_01-768x906.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190429-154812_01-990x1168.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190429-154812_01.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A report published on the website on April 26, 2019 had mentioned,<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Hitting out at former CM the late Manohar Parrikar for his soft stance on the consumption and sale of beef in Goa, Pragya Thakur said that Parrikar died of cancer because he allowed the consumption of beef in Goa.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34834\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/indiascoops_pragya-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/indiascoops_pragya-1.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/indiascoops_pragya-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/indiascoops_pragya-1-260x210.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>IndiaScoops<\/em>, a shadowy website<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>IndiaScoops is a website which came under the scanner in June last year, when it published a <a href=\"http:\/\/scoops.indiascoops.com\/rs-35-lakh-cost-of-pm-narendra-modis-yoga-videos-and-photo-shoot-ayush-ministry-spent-rs-20-crores-on-ads-for-international-yoga-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fake report<\/a> that Rs. 35 lakh had been spent by the PMO for PM Modi&#8217;s photo and video shoot on International Yoga Day on June 21.<\/p>\n<p>In another instance, <em>IndiaScoops<\/em> had published an article in the midst of the Rafale controversy, when it had &#8216;reported&#8217; that <em>\u201cthe entire technical staff team at Dassault Aviation were unhappy with the move to drop the Indian PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd(HAL) and go ahead with Reliance Defence Ltd.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>This too was a figment of imagination. Alt News had found that <em>IndiaScoops<\/em> is run by a person named Flynn Remedios, who also operates <em>IndiaScribes<\/em>, <em>IndiaWyre<\/em> and other such websites which mostly deal with gossip and fake news. Alt News&#8217; article can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/the-shadowy-world-of-flynn-remedios-indiascoops-indiascribes-bollywood-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur has not made any such statement saying that the BJP will ban beef in Goa, Northeast and South India; nor has she said that Manohar Parrikar died of cancer because he did not disallow beef consumption in his state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We will totally ban Beef in Goa, North-East &amp; South India, if BJP comes to power. Manohar Parrikar died of cancer because he allowed the consumption of beef in Goa.&#8221; The above statement has been attributed to controversial BJP candidate, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur. 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