The latest addition to this pantheon of the likes of Rani Jhansi and Ahilya Bai is the name of Sadhvi Pragya.She has been catapulted into the hurly burly of national politics after being nominated as the BJP candidate against the RSS-baiter Digvijay Singh from Bhopal.
Prime Minister Modi has endorsed and defended her candidature.
Her father, an ayurvedic doctor by profession, was associated with RSS.
In the 2019 Prayagraj Kumbh she was appointed mahamandaleshwar of Bharat Bhakti Akhada and christened Mahamandelshwar Swami Purnachetnanand Giri.Sadhvi Pragya underwent a dramatic change after her painful brush with the Indian law and order machinery and the brutality and torture in jail.
The young and volatile mind was disenchanted and this loss of faith in the system led to the logical reaction of detachment.Resilience and grit of this Bharatiya Veerangna (Indian braveheart) is established in the way she has staged a comeback after so much persecution and physical and mental torture.
The manner in which she has exposed the third degree torture and the horrors she was subjected to during her incarceration reflect both her survival instincts and fighting spirit.