Opposition rubbishes Rahul's blunt attack, BJP calls it belated

“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.