At the Shri Badrinath Katha Mahotsav, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami highlighted his government’s efforts to preserve the state’s “demography” and “original identity,” including laws against religious conversion and riots. He peddled the anti-Muslim conspiracy theories of “land jihad,” “love jihad,” and “thook jihad,” and alleged illegal encroachments, claiming that strict action was being taken against what he described as “vikrit mansikta” (distorted mindset).