“Belated realisation of what the Congress party now calls nonsense. The heads which brought out this nonsense twice in the last one month must roll. It is a charade to show the government can make a mistake, but the Congress's first family doesn't,” he added.
Jaitley's colleague Murli Manohar Joshi said an “escape route” is being plotted by the Congress after committing a "blunder" while another BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi asked, "Is this a government or a theatrical production?."
“Now that he (Rahul) speaks about it most belatedly, this is not bad, this is good... This statement is coming to take credit,” said Gurudas Das Gupta.