Sadhvi Pragya Thakur joined the Bharatiya Janata Party

Apr, 17 Ending all speculations, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur on Wednesday formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Sadhvi Pragya's name came into limelight after she was blamed in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.

It is expected that BJP would field Sadhvi Pragya against senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. The BJP is relied upon to make a formal declaration in such manner on Wednesday however Sadgvi Pragya has said that she will challenge from Bhopal and defeat Singh.

The Malegaon blast case was raised over and over by Singh at the national level with a plan to prove that RSS was engaged with advancing 'saffron terror' in the nation.

After coming out of jail, Sadhvi Pragya had revealed that she was brutally tortured in illegal police custody for 23 days continuously during interrogation. She said that during interrogation the officers kept her constraining to confess to the false charges brought against her.

Sadhvi Pragya has always kept up that her capture was a conspiracy hatched by the Congress-drove UPA government to endorse the bogey of Hindu terror.

Sadhvi Pragya is a postgraduate in History and had worked with RSS-affiliate Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Durga Vahini, the ladies' wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had given a perfect chit to Sadhvi Pragya in the 2008 Malegaon impact case however a unique NIA court would not release her from the case in December 2018. The court, be that as it may, dropped arrangements of Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) against her yet Sadhvi Pragya is being attempted under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). She was allowed bail by the Bombay High Court in 2018.

The Bhopal Lok Sabha from where she is likely to contest has become a prestige fight for the Congress, which has failed to win from the Madhya Pradesh capital since 1989.

In 2014, the seat was won by Alok Sanjar of BJP with a margin of 3.7 lakh votes. Experts maintain that by handling Digvijaya Singh from Bhopal, the Congress has forced the BJP to come up with a leader who can defeat the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister.

In the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Assembly election, Congress had won three out of eight assembly segments of Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency, while the BJP had emerged victorious on five seats.

The Bhopal voting demographic covers get together portions of Berasia, Bhopal Uttar, Narela, Bhopal south-west, Bhopal central, Govindpura, Huzur and Sehore.