Slamming Jaitley for his "venomous" attack on the PCI

chairman, Digvijay Singh said that Katju had always been impartial and at the same time very sensitive to the people's cause. "Why did Mr Arun Jaitley keep quiet when he brought out the issues against the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, against the Chief minister of Himachal Pradesh, against the Home ministry in the arrest of Iftekhar Gilani. "When he sort of publicly rebutted the police in the case of gangrape in Delhi. He kept quiet on those occasions," the Congress leader added. Digvijay was asked if the incident reflected BJP's reluctance to take criticism to which he said that "the fact is that they are a fascist ideology who can't take criticism ....Who believe in either you are my way or the highway." Yashwant Sinha, however said that he found Katju using words like "non-sense" and "rubbish" against Jaitley, something unbecoming of a judge. Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi trashed Jaitley's comment that Katju was "more Congress than Congress" questioning whether everybody who has criticised Modi was a Congress plant. "I am astonished at the outburst (of Jaitley). Over the last eleven years, people of all colours, parties, persuasions and views have at different times criticised and even condemned Modi. Does it mean all of them are Congressmen? "Anybody who criticised Modi becomes a Congress plant. In that case, thousands of people of the country - unconnected with politics, connected with politics, whosoever has done so must be treated as a Congress member," Singhvi said. Lok Janashakti Party also backed Katju saying that be it Gujarat or Bihar, NDA governments are "playing the game of statistics and manipulation" in the name of development and criticised Jaitley for his "unjustified" anger. "Jaitley should talk after due consideration. Katju speaks on the basis of facts. BJP is attacking PCI Chairman unnecessarily. In similar manner, the NDA government in Bihar has gagged the media.... We support Katju on whatever he has said over the situation in Gujarat now and Bihar in past," party chief Ram Vilas Paswan said.