Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Sambit Patra said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had turned into the "Abusing and Accusing Party". Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's morning "begins with Modi, Modi, Modi; his afternoons are Modi, Modi, Modi and evenings are Modi, Modi, Modi", Patra alleged. He was reacting to Kejriwal's contention that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to be blamed for President Pranab Mukherjee rejecting an amendment passed by the Delhi government that aimed to retrospectively exempt the appointment of 21 AAP MLAs as parliamentary secretaries. The BJP claimed Kejriwal was "politicising" what was essentially a "legal issue".