A member of the Council of Ministers divided the country into Ramzada (believers in the Hindu god Ram) and Haramzada (bastards) – and was allowed to retain her post. Another BJP legislator declared Mahatma Gandhi’s Hindu-nationalist assassin to be a patriot, while a fringe party in the Modi camp announced a campaign to install the assassin’s busts throughout the country.
一位莫迪的主要支持者宣称，所有印度人都必须承认他们是文化上的印度教徒。一位内阁会议（Council of Ministers）成员将印度分为“拉姆扎达”（Ramzada，信奉印度教的神拉姆的人）和“哈拉姆扎达”（Haramzada，杂种）。另一位印度人民党立法者宣称刺杀圣雄甘地的印度民族主义刺客是爱国者，而莫迪阵营中的一个边缘政党还发起了一场为这名刺客在全国树立雕像的运动。