At a Chhath Puja Mahotsav event, far-right monk Mahant Raju Das targeted Muslims and Christians and urged attendees to become “kattar” (radical) to “protect dharma,” asserting that the survival of religion determines the survival of the nation, livelihoods, and people. He disparaged Islam and Christianity by calling them “two global sampradaye–chaddar aur father,” claiming their followers “only believe in themselves,” unlike Hindus. He warned of a “Hindu decline” in nine Indian states, framing it as a demographic threat and claiming Hindus will “perish” unless they radicalize to defend their faith. He added that Hindus have survived only because their ancestors fought for their religion, adding that without such resistance, “we too would be in some church praying or in some masjid doing ‘three wives, seventy-three children.’” He further blamed “love jihad” for weakening Hindu society and claimed that the Hindu Suraksha Seva Sangh was established to “protect Hindus from love jihad and religious conversion.”