Debating the Dadri lynching on The Buck Stops Here, former Supreme Court judge Justice Markandey Katju said, "Our politicians of all parties are mostly a set of rogues and rascals who should have been hanged a long time back". His comment united politicians from all parties, with Union Minister of State for Agriculture Sanjeev Balyan retorting, "He calls 90% people idiots, he is the idiot."