Less than a day after the Shiv-Sena issued a barbaric call to "cut off" the hands of Sharjeel Imam, the JNU student charged with sedition, BJP-MLA Sangeet Som, named in several cases linked to the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, has demanded that people "who talk of breaking India be shot dead publicly". Many claim the sections of his speech deemed seditious were taken-out of context.