At a Virat Hindu Sammelan organised by Sakal Hindu Samaj, Sunil Deodhar, Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak, demonised Islam as a religion that seeks to expand its population through women by targeting Hindu women and making them produce Muslim children, and demeaned Muslim women by portraying them as tools to increase the Muslim population; he also justified practices like Jauhar and Sati by blaming Muslims.