The opposition stepped up pressure for legal action against Nupur Sharma and demanded the arrest of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader for her controversial statement on Prophet Mohammad.
Dismissing the saffron party’s suspension of its spokeswoman Nupur Sharma and expulsion of its Delhi media head Naveen Kumar Jindal as mere drama, the opposition parties called for strict legal action against the two. They also slammed the BJP-led Centre and accused it of denting the image of the country.
Congress, while asking why those responsible for putting out offensive comments had not been arrested yet, said it was unacceptable for the nation to apologise for such mistakes.
Instead of doing a drama of action against anti-social elements in the party who have defamed India at the international level, it should immediately arrest them, Congress said.
With their hate-mongering propagandist politics, BJP hasn’t just shamed the country but put the nation which once stood for peace and harmony on trial for the whole world to see, it added.