By CJP Team
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has filed a complaint before the National Commission for Minorities (NCM), with copies marked to the Directors General of Police of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, flagging a disturbing pattern of serial hate speech by self-styled religious figure Kalicharan Maharaj (also known as Abhijit Dhananjay Sarag). The complaint documents repeated, public, and incendiary speeches delivered across multiple states between October 2024 and January 2025, targeting India’s Muslim community through demonisation, conspiracy theories, and explicit calls for exclusion from public and economic life.
CJP’s complaint is not an isolated intervention. It situates the latest instances within a longer history of complaints, FIRs, and prior representations against the same individual, including a detailed complaint submitted in August 2024. Despite this record, Kalicharan Maharaj has continued to occupy prominent public platforms—often at religious or media-sponsored events—where his rhetoric has grown increasingly explicit and dangerous, underscoring what CJP describes as a systemic failure of deterrence.
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Previous complaints sent may be read here, here and here.
A pattern of escalation
The complaint centres on three specific public events. The most striking took place on January 8, 2025, at the “Rising Madhya Pradesh” event organised by News18 in Bhopal. From a widely publicised stage, Kalicharan Maharaj openly called for the exclusion of Muslim vendors from the Kumbh Mela, promoted fabricated conspiracies such as “spit jihad” and “urine jihad,” claimed that Muslims do not belong in India, and portrayed Muslim population growth as a form of violence against Hindus. He further accused Muslims of plotting to destroy the Ram Mandir and invoked the conspiracy of “Ghazwa-e-Hind,” casting Indian Muslims as internal enemies engaged in civilisational warfare.
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