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.