The message to avoid big gatherings was circulated after demonstrations took a violent turn last week.
The party suspended both of them and said it denounced any insult towards any religion.
Police arrested at least 400 suspected rioters during unrest in several states, and curfews were imposed and internet services were suspended in some places. Critics have said his BJP has pursued a confrontational line, promoting the idea that India is a Hindu nation and rounded on "anti-national" opponents, which many Muslims see as an attempt to marginalise them.Authorities in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday demolished the home of a Muslim man linked to the riots, drawing the condemnation of the state government, led by the BJP, from constitutional experts and rights groups.
"We are not demolishing houses to stop Muslims from protesting as they have all the right to take to the streets," an aide to the state's hardline Hindu leader said.
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