Finance minister Arun Jaitley termed Congress' support to students indulging in anti-national slogans as ideological hollowness. Speaking at the concluding session of the two-day national Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha convention at Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh, he defined the Leftist as the one who believe in
dividing and ruling the country through violence. Taking a potshot at Leftists, he said that a small group out of them was "Jihadi" while the bigger group was "Maoist".
Jaitely pointed out that Mahatama Gandhi, Jawahar Lal, Indira Gandhi or Rajeev Gandhi supported such elements.