At a Hindu Janakrosh March organised by Sakal Hindu Samaj, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Sanjay Mukund Kelkar praised Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for restricting namaz on roads and limiting the use of mosque loudspeakers for the azaan and called for loudspeakers at all mosques in Thane to be shut off. He also claimed that Thane had a large number of “illegal Bangladeshis”, demonised Bangladeshi migrants, urged the audience to identify and expel them if the administration failed to do so, spread the conspiracies of “love jihad,” “vote jihad,” and “corporate jihad,” and declared that both the administration and Hindus were responsible for ending “jihad”.