During a Ram Navami procession, Nitesh Rane, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA, delivered an inflammatory speech declaring that India is a Hindu Rashtra and not “someone’s father’s Pakistan,” and threatened violence, stating: “Agar kisine bhi hamare Bhagwa ke taraf gandi nazar se dekhega toh unke aankhe nilakle gotiya khelunga (If anyone looks at our saffron religion the wrong way, I will gouge their eyes out and play marbles with it),” he said.v