New Delhi: BJP staged nationwide protests on Saturday across the country condemning Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari over his personal remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

This comes after Bhutto traded barbs with India’s Foreign Minister S Jaishakar over terrorism at the UN. Jaishankar told Pakistan to clean up your act and try to be a good neighbour and called it the epicentre of terrorism.

Bilawal responding to S Jaishakar comments he said that Osama bin Laden is dead, but the Butcher of Gujarat lives and he is the prime minister of India. Modi was the chief minister of the state of Gujarat when sectarian riots in 2002 left more than 1,000 people dead. He has been accused of turning a blind eye to the violence, and until his election was denied entry to the US.

BJP workers burnt an effigy of Bhutto and staged a protest march from the BJP office to Atal Chowk in Lucknow. On Friday, BJP workers in Mathura staged a protest against Bhutto and also burnt an effigy. A large number of BJP workers marched from the Uttar Pradesh BJP office to the Atal Chowk in Hazratganj and raised slogans against Bilawal Bhutto.

Protests were held in Rajkot, Vadodara, Gandhinagar, Botad, Mahisagar, Junagadh and many other places. BJP activists raised slogans against Bhutto and also burnt his effigies in some places. In Gandhinagar, a delegation led by state BJP’s Yuva Morcha president Prashant Korat submitted a memorandum criticizing Pakistan and the Minister to Governor Acharya Devvrat at Raj Bhavan.

A large number of party workers and leaders gathered at the Zilla Panchayat Chowk in Rajkot and shouted slogans against Bilawal Bhutto and demanded that he should apologise for his statement on PM Modi.

Protests began in Pune and Mumbai simultaneously on Saturday morning with hundreds of BJP workers and leaders gathering at major junctions with placards in their hands. They also burnt the effigies of Pakistan and Pakistan’s Foreign Minister while shouting slogans against them.

BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit staged a protest from the party’s office in Srinagar’s Jawahar Nagar area raising slogans against Bhutto and demanding an apology from him. The party workers also burnt effigies of Bhutto and Pakistan.

In Telangana the State BJP leaders staged a protest march from Babu Jagjeevan Ram statue to Ambedkar statue on Saturday and raised slogans against Bhutto and burnt his effigies.

In Andhra Pradesh, the AP BJP Chief Somu Veerraju leads the protest demonstration in Vijayawada by condemning the Pakistan Minister’s comments against PM Modi and burnt effigy of Bhutto. Hundreds of BJP workers participated in the protest march.