BJP's outspoken Bairia MLA Surendra Nath Singh has described the ongoing Anti-CAA protest at Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi as a global conspiracy by Muslim countries to "divide the country". "If his DNA test is conducted, it will be proved that like Jinnah, he wants to make India a Muslim country," said Singh. The Shaheen Bagh protest against the CAA and proposed NRC is a conspiracy sponsored by Muslim countries at the global level, Singh told reporters here on Friday night. "This dharna is being staged to divide the country," he added.

About 20 kilometers east from Delhi’s border, the chief priest of Devi Mandir, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, also the leader of a Hindutva organisation called Hindu Swabhiman and president of the Akhil Bharatiya Sant Parishad has been calling for a “final war against Muslims” and believes that “Islam must be removed to save humanity”. Some of the statements he made in the run up to the communal violence in Delhi are “If we don’t remove an evil like Islam from society, how will we survive?”, “Humanity can be saved only if we finish off Islam”, “When your religion needs, you should fight a war. And to pick up arms for religion is not a paap (sin) but punya (virtue)", “All Hindus must stand with Kapil and Gopal who showed the courage to fight Shaheen Bagh. Support these warriors and fight Islam”, “Only Kapil Mishra stood for Hindus against Jihadis in Delhi. Gautam Gambhir is a eunuch. All Hindus must stand with Kapil Mishra”. These can be accessed on his YouTube channel ‘Narsingh Vani’.

BHOPAL, FEBRUARY 21, 2020: A sessions court in Ratlam has acquitted eight Christians accused of kidnapping and forcibly converting 60 children from Jhabua district in May 2017. Additional District and Sessions Judge Vivek Kumar Shrivastava acquitted them recently after none of the 20 witnesses, including parents, supported the prosecution version. As the six men and two women escorted the children to a Bible camp near Nagpur, on May 23, 2017, the railway police, tipped off by right-wing Hindu outfits, detained them at the Ratlam railway station. A case was registered under the Indian Penal Code and the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act.