Supreme Court lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay delivered a speech explicitly targeting Muslims at the Mahan Bharat event. He spread the conspiracies of “love jihad,” “land jihad,” and illegal infiltration. Upadhyay falsely claimed that Kashmiri Muslims committed genocide against Hindus and alleged ongoing genocides by Muslims. He claimed “around 1,000 Hindu women fall victim to ‘love jihad’ every day, and 4 lakh every year.” He blamed “converted Hindus” for aiding “guspathiyas” and “jihadis,” calling religious conversion the root cause of the problem.