During a Kirtan event, far-right preacher Sangram Bapu Bhandare accused Christians of waging a religious war through deceptive conversions and warned Hindus about “fathers” and “chaddars”. He declared Islam and Christianity as foreign religions and spread conspiracies of ‘love jihad’ and ‘land jihad’. Bhandare also promoted violence against pastors, citing Gopichand Padalkar’s call to “answer the padres”.