While, Sushma did not respond as the controversy raged, she hit out at the journalist who had done the story against her questioning her propriety. While many of the BJP leaders were shy of reacting, BJP MP from Bihar and former cricketer Kirti Azad pointed towards a BJP’s insider who could be behind the leak. Another BJP MP Shahtrughan Sinha appeared to second Azad. “Kirti is a good friend of mine, whatever he would have said, he would have thought about it,” Sinha said.