AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi compared the killers of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed to Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse. He called them terrorists and "Godse ki najayaz aulad (Godse's illegitimate sons)". "They are radicalised and walking in the footsteps of Godse. They must be stopped, otherwise they will kill more people," added Owaisi.