After Uttarakhand minister and BJP leader Ganesh Joshi called the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi "accidents", Congress leader Harish Rawat said, "BJP has gone mad." "No one has the right to insult martyrdom...BJP should apologise," Rawat added. Joshi had said, "There's a difference between martyrdom and accident. Indira Gandhi was killed by her bodyguards. That wasn't martyrdom."