At a Vishwa Hindu Parishad–Durga Vahini event, BJP leader and Supreme Court lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay claimed that religious conversions are a national security threat and “equal to waging war.” He invoked the Mughals to demonise Islam, argued that colonialism existed to promote Christianity, and spread conspiracies of ‘land jihad’ and ‘love jihad’. He further fearmongered about infiltration, alleging “5 crore are in India.”