Senior Trinamool MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar called the incident “a total intelligence failure” and a serious breach of security. “They [accused] entered with a pass of a BJP MP from Karnataka. If Mahua Moitra can be expelled for breaching national security, then why [no action] against this BJP MP, whose connivance brought these miscreants into the Lok Sabha and created this security lapse?”
Opposition leaders have demanded the expulsion of BJP MP Pratap Simha who issued a visitor pass to Sagar Sharma, one of the men who jumped into Lok Sabha chambers carrying gas canisters.