During the Hindu Maha Sammelan, BJP MLA Vikram Singh delivered an anti-Muslim speech, claiming that there is not a single district in North India without a “fortress like Pakistan,” a figure like Salahuddin, or areas where even the police fear to enter in the evening. He asserted that one or more such localities exist in every district and said this must change. BJP former district president Mukhlal Pal, referring to the death of Tarun Butolia during a clash on Holi, praised people in Delhi for allegedly declaring that “on Eid, we will play Holi with blood.”