Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remark that the Congress had threatened the judges of the Ayodhya dispute case, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday said the BJP government in the country was "inciting religious tension" to secure vote bank. The saffron party was fuelling communal polarisation in the country by making "unacceptable statements", he said.

On Sunday, Narendra Modi alleged that the Congress had threatened Supreme Court judges with impeachment when they tried to hear the Ayodhya dispute cases earlier this year. Without naming anyone, the Prime Minister claimed that the Congress party's Rajya Sabha members, who are also lawyers, had tried to scare away the apex court judges to ensure the hearing in the cases is delayed until after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.