During a Virat Hindu Sammelan, Sunil Deodhar, Bharatiya Janata Party leader, spread the conspiracy theory of “love jihad,” claimed hundreds of Hindu women are its victims, and alleged that Kothrud has turned into Kondhwa over the past 20 years. He also claimed Hindu population decline is due to Hindu women refusing to have children while Muslims follow “we are 5, we have 50,” described it as a “demographic attack,” and alleged that Muslim men are sexually harassing Hindu women en masse in West Bengal.