Mallikarjun Kharge wrote, "Mentioning and making remarks in regard to a member of the Lower House in the Upper House is a gross violation of the time-honored conventions."
Gowami and his wife filed a written complaint to the NM Joshi Marg Police station naming two individuals, Arun Dilip Borade and Prateek Kumar Shyam Sunder Mishra of Mumbai who had allegedly attacked the couple.
Calling Shastra Puja as a 'tamasha', Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge further said that the previous Congress government bought weapons like the Bofors guns, but no one went and brought them by showing off.