Union Minister Jayant Sinha’s act of garlanding the convicted in the 2017 Alimuddin Ansari lynching case made headlines and sparked national outrage in July 2018. It's been revealed now that Sinha and Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) also provided the convicts financial and legal assistance.

In an interview with BBC Hindi, Sinha spoke about felicitating the eight convicts in the case and how his party helped them get bail. Sinha is the BJP MP from Hazaribagh, the district in which the incident took place.