BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur fainted during an event at the state BJP office on Tuesday. Due to sudden health deterioration and unconscious, she was hospitalised. However, she is recovering satisfactorily, says party sources. Pragya had come to Bhopal to attend a function to mark the death anniversary of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. Many leaders, including state BJP President V.D. Sharma and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and MLAs were present at the event in the party office at Deen Dayal Parisar.
It is being told that Chief Minister Chauhan was addressing when Pragya fainted. Chairs were not arranged in the program. She started feeling dizzy due to prolonged standing.
"The cause for the sudden decline in her health was being ascertained. She has been admitted to a private nursing home and will be under observation for some time," said party officials.
Thakur had arrived from Delhi on Sunday after four months. The lockdown and prolonged treatment for eye and brain infection had kept her away from her constituency. She had participated in the Yoga Day programme in Bhopal on Sunday.
BJP's Lok Sabha member from Bhopal Pragya Singh Thakur on Sunday attributed her health issues, including alleged loss of vision, to "torture" she suffered under the Congress regime.
Thakur, who participated in the International Yoga Day event at the state BJP headquarters here, told reporters that she had "swelling and pus from retina to brain", adding she lost vision from one eye.
"I sustained several injuries due to torture by the Congress for nine years. Many injuries resurface due to this torture. There was formation of pus and swelling in my eyes and brain. I have blurred vision in the right eye and I cant see at all from the left one," she said, apparently referring to her imprisonment in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
Asked about her posters appearing in Bhopal claiming she was 'missing' during the coronavirus outbreak, Thakur said she could not return to Bhopal from Delhi earlier because of travel restrictions due the lockdown.
Thakur said she along with her staff and security could not get tickets on time due to the travel restrictions.
Congress MLA and former state minister P C Sharma claimed that Thakur was in Bhopal when the lockdown began and left for Delhi later for treatment of a small ailment.
Talking to PTI, Sharma also rubbished her claim that she was tortured under the Congress regime.
"We respect women. How can the Congress torture her when there was a BJP government for 15 years in Madhya Pradesh and six years at the Centre? These allegations are aimed at creating confusion," he said.
