NAINITAL: VHP leader Sadhvi Prachi triggered another controversy on Thursday by alleging there are “one or two terrorists” in Parliament in remarks that appeared to be targeting MPs who were against hanging of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon .

Talking to reporters in Roorkee, the saffron leader also demanded that the Union government should hand over the captured terrorist in Udhampur to Hindu organizations who will teach him “a good lesson”.

“This is a great misfortune of the country that there are one or two terrorists sitting in Parliament as they are the ones disobeying the judgment of a court which had proved that Yakub was a terrorist. After the crime of terror has been proven in a court of law, those who were supporting a terrorist are also terrorists,” the controversial leader said.

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The sadhvi also wanted the Pakistani terrorist captured on Wednesday to be handed over to Hindu organisations after questioning. “It is my humble request to the Centre that after the security agencies are through with their necessary investigations, the arrested Pakistani terrorist should be handed over to Hindu outfits which alone can teach him a good lesson,” she added.

It is worth mentioning here that Congress MPs Shashi Tharoor and Digvijaya Singh had raised questions over the July 30 hanging of Yakub Memon shortly after his execution in Nagpur jail. Tharoor had said he was saddened by the hanging of the lone death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, adding that that the “state-sponsored killing diminishes us all by reducing us to murderers too”. Singh had questioned the “exemplary urgency” the NDA government showed in Yakub’s hanging.

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Congress on Thursday took on the sadhvi for her remarks against parliamentarians and demanded action against the Hindutva leader.

“Parliament belongs to all of us. The Constitution has said that Parliament is the temple of democracy. And if someone calls those sitting inside it, as terrorists, then it is not just an insult to Parliament but also the Constitution. I think it is the right time that Speaker Sumitra Mahajan takes action,” Congress leader Pramod Tiwari said.

(With inputs from agencies)