Congress leader Kapil Sibal said that it is Bharaitya Janata Party's strategy to divide the society and collect the vote. He said, "These people do not know the history, because they never participated in it. The language used by Anant Hegde for Mahatma Gandhi cannot belong to any citizen. This is strategy of BJP, to divide the society and collect the vote." Union Minister a BJP leader Prakash Javadekar on February 03 called Arvind Kejriwal 'a terrorist'.