In a joint statement,  Prashant Bhushan, Arvind Kejriwal, Mahesh Bhatt and Sandeep Pandey said “that curbing people's right to peacefully protest is a suppression of democracy.” “We condemn the undemocratic  and arbitrary detention of riot victims and activists who were protesting against the state government of Gujarat and Narendra Modi’s Sadbhavana mission in Ahmedabad,” they said.