At a VHP-Bajrang Dal Akhand Bharat Sankalp Diwas event, speaker Mahesh Tiwari accused the leaders of the independence era of deceiving Hindus by allowing Muslims to remain in India, claiming that one worships cows while the other eats them. He alleged that Muslims who stayed back laid the foundation for a “new Pakistan” and that the conspiracy continues in every corner of the country. He also chanted the slogan, “Whichever house Afzal comes out of, we’ll enter and kill him there.”