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Bajrang Muni Das is a priest or ‘mahant’ of Maharshi Shri Lakshman Das Udasin Ashram in Khairabad town of Uttar Pradesh. In April 2022, he issued a criminal threat to rape Muslim women while he was addressing supporters who took out a procession on the occasion of Navratri and Hindu New Year, outside a mosque. Das was arrested by the police on April 13, 2022 from Sitapur, 100 km from state capital Lucknow, six days after the incident and was granted bail within 10 days. Das has been widely sharing hate instigating videos online and has been seen openly threatening violence against Muslims, often in the presence of the police.
Dr. Pooja Shakun Pandey alias Annapurna Bharti of Niranjani Akhada is a prominent leader of the Hindu Mahasabha and is often in the headlines for hate speech against Muslims. She assured herself a name in Hindutva’s Hall of Hate-Fame in February 2019 when she re-created the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in Aligarh. She was briefly arrested then and released soon after.
Pandey was also one of the infamous hate-mongers at Haridwar in December 2021. In February, 2022 Pandey spoke at Prayagraj and claimed that those speeches were in the interest of the safety of religious leaders. She also defended repeat offenders Narsinganand and Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi who were under arrest at the time. She was also in the news for comments on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he announced his government’s decision to repeal the three farm laws in the wake of a year-long protest by the farmers in Delhi and other parts of India.
She was also briefly arrested in April 2020 for making provocative comments against members of the Tablighi Jamaat. In March 2021, she had demanded a ban on Muslims from entering temples soon after a minor Muslim boy was beaten up by Hindutva activist Shringi Yadav for entering a temple in Dasna. She is regularly seen interacting with BJP party leaders like BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya and the Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan. On June 7, 2022, a case was registered against her for likening Friday prayers (Jumma) to ‘Terrorism’.
Pravin Togadia, surgeon-turned-Hindutva leader is a president of Antarashtriya Hindu Parishad (AHP) who seems to be on his way to revive his 2000's agenda of militarising Hindu society. In April 2022, he was sighted along with his team making innocent people of Assam, repeat an anti-Muslim oath after him while holding sharp trishuls and then openly distributing these weapons amongst the crowd. Similarly, AHP had held a ‘Trishul Diksha’ in Gujarat where they distributed thousands of swords and tridents to the people. He has been in the news for frequenting the state of Assam with the intention to spew hate against Muslim migrants who came to India after 1951.
Praveen Togadia, first became notorious as one of the architects of the 2002 communal genocide in Gujarat, and has been spewing venom and vitriol against minorities ever since. Peace loving individuals, democratic minded citizens and the country’s religious minorities and Dalits have been in his crosshairs since the early 2000s. He had been taken into custody in April 2003 in Rajasthan for breaking the ban on Trishul distribution that the government of Rajasthan had invoked. Later the same year, Togadia was involved in the vicious attack on secular forces working for justice for victims of the Gujarat carnage and the families of those who perished in the Sabarmati Express at Godhra. He singled out CJP Secretary Teesta Setalvad as a prime target of his hate speech and had declared that she should be prevented from entering Gujarat.
Serial Hate Offender Shrinkhal Chaliha is a leader of the popular nationalist-supremacist- organisation Veer Lachit Sena in Assam. Chaliha is known for his repeated hate speech against the local populations, especially religious, linguistic and ethnic minorities through repeated use of the ‘bogey’ of ‘illegal Bangladeshi migrants’. His verbal threats that threaten targeted violence have not been prosecuted. He threatens targeted violence. His words provoke people to hurt and kill Bengali speaking persons what he openly calls a ‘Jihad against Bengali speaking people’. In October last year, he had demanded that an eviction drive be carried out in Mayang in Morigaon district of Assam (with a substantial Muslim population), accusing the local population of being “encroachers”. Chaliha had also reportedly asked a non-Assamese shop keeper in Shivsagar to shut down his shop in September 2021. Chaliha had been caught on camera threatening to use hengdang (a traditional Ahom double-edged sword) on the man renting a shop owned by an indigenous widow woman for not paying the rent. Since the woman did not get fruitful result from the court, the man was illegally forced by Shrinkhal Chaliha to vacate the room. In late January 2022, as many as 12 members of Chaliha’s Veer Lachit Sena were arrested – seven on charges of extortion and threatening a businessman in Golaghat, and five for assaulting a Bengali youth in Morigoan. Recently, in the case of a custodial death of a fisherman in Assam, calling the deceased fisherman’s family and friends “Jihadi”, he demanded that the family of the deceased not be paid any compensation and should be “encountered” instead. By demanding a “reaction” from the authorities, what Chaliha is actually demanding is violent actions in the garb of ‘retaliation’. This makes the villagers of the area belonging to the Muslim and Bengali speaking minorities acutely vulnerable.
Serial hate speech offender and attention seeker Paramhans Das who calls himself “Jagatguru Paramhansacharya from Ayodhya district” seeks the spotlight in bizarre ways. In April 2022, he played the victim card, claiming he was denied permission to enter Taj Mahal premises because of his saffron clothes. The Archaeological Survey of India refuted the claim, saying he was asked to deposit something in the security locker and he refused. Das wants to be recognised as a Hindutva leader, and in 2021, had threatened to die by suicide if India was not declared Hindu Rashtriya. He has extended the deadline now till 2023. He also demanded that the citizenship of Muslims and Christians should be terminated. Das had also announced a reward of Rs 5 crores for beheading Kalyan Banerjee (a TMC leader) and called the farmers who were protesting the regime's (now withdrawn) anti-farmer laws, “China, Pakistan and terrorist aided Khalistanis”. He is yet to be arrested for his many communal statements targeting minority communities.
55-year-old Raghvendra Pratap Singh is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from Uttar Pradesh. Until recently, he was the Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Domariyaganj. But the serial hate offender was defeated by Samajwadi Party’s Saiyada Khatoon in the 2022 Assembly Elections. Singh had allegedly made a series of extremely communally polarizing statements as part of his election campaign, that were in clear violation of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Model Code of Conduct (MCC). He reportedly told his constituents, “If you make me MLA again, they (Muslims) will stop wearing skullcaps and start applying tilaks.” Singh also claims that after he got elected in the last election, “250 acres of land belonging to Muslims got confiscated, their shops destroyed.” Singh also asks the crowd, “Will there be Jai Shri Ram or Walekum Salam in Domariyaganj?”
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