The ABES teacher further claimed that the casteist comments being made about her are disturbing her. Mamata Gautam asserted that she herself is a "Sanatani" and "Brahmin".
One of the buses in which the activists were chanting Jai Shri Ram slogans and absorbed in Ram bhajans was stopped by the Islamists. The Hindu activists were returning to Vadodara and were threatened by the Islamists near Chandola.
The UK Ambassador to India said, "Did you ever imagine one day a person staying at 10 Downing Street, on August 15, would say Jai Shri Ram? Lord Curzon would have choked."