In 2017, Qatar's state-funded Al Jazeera, and Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency, labelled the Panthers Party as a right-wing Hindu nationalist political party,[32] for its billboard poster campaign, calling for an expulsion of Muslim refugees from Jammu.[33][34][35] Party leader, Bhim Singh however, in an interview with Russia's state-owned news agency Sputnik, maintained a secular stance, and stated that the Rohingya refugees posed a security risk to both Muslims, and Hindus in Jammu.[36]