The Samajwadi Party said Shah's remarks vindicated what it had always said about Modi and his aides being " fascists".
"They cannot tolerate anyone else. To say that a democratically elected government will be dismissed shows they believers of fascism and these kind of people are never elected."
"BJP is frustrated as they will not get the kind of result they were expecting in Uttar Pradesh.... Let them dare to dismiss the SP government, " SP leader Ramgopal Yadav said.
Congress leader Satyavrat Chautvedi said the BJP, which had accused the Congress of communalism over the meeting between Sonia Gandhi and Shahi Imam, should answer if it considered Shah's speech as "communal and provocative or one which promotes amity".
Party candidate and spokesperson Raj Babbar accused both the SP and the BJP of trying to divide the people of Uttar Pradesh along communal lines.
