The Congress and Communists demanded banning of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad . From the Sangh Parivar whose frontal organisations are alleged to be involved in the incident , Balbir K Punj , BJP MP , wrote on the website of the Hindu Vivek Kendra , a self-claimed resource center for the promotion of Hindutva , that vandalism , even though condemnable , could not be equated with terrorism . He asserted that 16 December attack on Odisha Assembly should not be equated with the 13 December attack as asserted by the Congress and the Marxists . He cited two similar incidents of Odisha Assembly attacks in the past – one by agitating students with Leftist leaning forcing into the State Assembly in 1964 when Biren Mitra headed a Congress Government in the state and another in 1978 when during the Chief Ministership of Nilamani Routray of Janata Party the Congress activists stormed the assembly prompted by the arrest of Indira Gandhi
13 December attack
2001 Indian Parliament attack
2001 Odisha Assembly attack