Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said Shinde's remark gave a lot of "undue advantage" to terrorists and handlers of terrorism and had in a way "compromised on the national security". She said the remark was "without any basis then and today in his statement it is conceded that the RSS and the BJP do not train terrorists in their camps. "This whole month unfortunately has been spent on an issue, which had really created such a sense of worry and anguish among people, nationalist organisations and the BJP, which is the principal Opposition party." She said terrorists or terrorism cannot have a colour and cannot be related to a religion. "In fact the statement, which has come from the Home Minister should be seen as a lesson for many people, who every then and now throw this kind of baseless allegation against BJP and RSS as such allegations are only going to compromise with the national security or even the social harmony in the country," the BJP spokesperson said. She hoped that with the air over Shinde's statement now being cleared, attention will be given to critical issues, which are pending in Parliament.
