Senior party leader Ravishankar Prasad also played a video clip of Barrack Obama and insisted that the use of the word "revenge" by Shah was not unusual as the US President too had used the word during an election campaign in Ohio.
"Even US President Obama has told Ohioans that voting is the best revenge," Prasad said.
Mounting a scathing attack on the SP government in Uttar Pradesh over the matter, he said, "The case has been registered by UP government for vote bank. It is not a bonafide FIR, but an FIR designed for vote bank politics."
"This FIR is a calculated design to communalise and polarise the election scenario of Uttar Pradesh. BJP condemns this downright insult...It's not the SP alone, which has got this case registered against Shah. Congress and BSP are also behind it," Prasad said.
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Replying to questions, he said BJP is, however, not worried about the possibility of Shah's arrest and will fight the legal battle.
Shah, Narendra Modi's key aide, was booked today by the Bijnore district administration for allegedly inciting the public through his controversial "revenge" remark.