Samajwadi Party leader Indrajeet Saroj said on Monday, "If temples of India had powers, then Muhammad-bin-Qasim...Mahmud Ghaznavi...Muhammad Ghori would not have come and looted this country". Reacting to Saroj's statement, Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar said, "I don't understand what he intended...it's an attempt to weaken the God's powers and increase one's own powers."