[3][4][5] Sudhir Chaudhary, the ex-editor-in-chief of Zee news (currently Consulting Editor of Aaj Tak), took credit for coining the term.
[6] Shivam Vij, the contributing editor of ThePrint, credited Republic TV's Arnab Goswami for having popularised the term as a device to club together all the Leftist critics of the government as anti-nationals who allegedly wanted to see India broken to pieces.
[10][11][12][13] Some students, including Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid, were arrested under charges of sedition and later released on bail for six months.
"[24][18] Yashwant Sinha, former Minister of Finance and External Affairs under PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee said, the real tukde-tukde gang is the one who are in the BJP indicating to Modi and Shah.
[25] Historian Ramachandra Guha said the real tukde-tukde gang are those, who are sitting in Delhi who want to divide the country on the basis of religion and languages while he was detained by police during CAA-NRC protest.