Hitting out at the BJP over the derogatory remarks made by its functionaries against Prophet Muhammad, the Congress on Monday accused it of defaming India at the international level and said it was unacceptable that the nation has to apologise for its mistakes. The BJP’s president should apologise, it added.

It also demanded the arrest of the two BJP functionaries—Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal—after international outrage on the issue. The BJP on Sunday suspended its national spokesperson Sharma and expelled the party’s Delhi unit media head Jindal.