Following Tiwari's outburst against Nitish Kumar, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Giriraj Singh said Tiwari "was punished by Nitish Kumar for praising BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi".
Last year, Tiwari said that the rise of a tea vendor from a backward caste was impressive.
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Ram Kirpal Yadav said Tiwari was an honest leader with a mindset to work for social justice. He, however, did not say whether Tiwari was welcome to rejoin the RJD as he was in that party before joining JD-U.
