Nupur Sharma, a spokesman for the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata (BJP), made the comment in a televised debate last month, while Naveen Jindal, who was the party’s head of media for the Delhi unit, had published a tweet on the subject. The comments, especially those of Ms. Sharma, angered the country’s Muslim minority community, sparking sporadic protests in some states. The BBC does not repeat Mrs Sharma’s comments as they are offensive in nature.