Location: Dhanvati Dhura, Ballia, Uttar Pradesh Date: October 21 During a Durga idol immersion procession, Hindu nationalist supporters attempted to set an Islamic flag ablaze by spraying kerosene from their mouths toward an open flame, in the presence of police personnel.

Location: Hardiwar, Uttarakhand Date: October 20 AHP-Rashtriya Bajrang Dal held a Shastra Pujan (weapon worship) ceremony, displaying and brandishing swords.

Location: Milak, Rampur, Uttar Pradesh Date: October 20 At a Ramleela organised by the Sri Ramleela Committee, a Shastra Pujan (weapon worship) ceremony was held on stage, where a speaker urged attendees to keep weapons at home and worship them.

Location: Rewa, Madhya Pradesh Date: October 19 Members of VHP-Bajrang Dal organised a Shastra Puja (weapon worship) ceremony on Mahanavami, during which participants brandished swords and firearms and raised religious slogans.

Location: Birdpur, Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh Date: October 20 VHP-Bajrang Dal members organised a Shastra Puja (weapon worship) ceremony on Vijayadashami, displaying swords, firearms and other traditional weapons.

Location: Birdpur, Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh Date: October 20 VHP-Bajrang Dal members organised a Shastra Puja (weapon worship) ceremony on Vijayadashami, displaying swords, firearms and other traditional weapons.

Location: Mohgaon, Mandla, Madhya Pradesh Date: October 16 AHP-Rashtriya Bajrang Dal members organised a Shastra Puja (weapon-worship) program following a rally in which participants brandished swords and other weapons. A speaker asserted that shastra (weapons) and shaastra (religious scriptures) were incomplete without each other. Another speaker claimed that keeping weapons was necessary for self-defence.

Location: Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh Date: October 19 During a Shastra Puja (weapon worship) programme organised by AHP-Rashtriya Bajrang Dal, leader Gaurav Raghav urged attendees to keep weapons at home and perform Shastra Puja in every household to protect Sanatan Dharma. Citing Hindu mythological figures who carried weapons, he asserted that shastra (weapons) and shaastra (religious scriptures) were incomplete without each other, claiming weapons would protect Hindus and prevent “asuri” (demonic) forces from surviving in the country. He also claimed Kanya Pujan was necessary to protect Hindu girls from the “storm of jihad.”

Location: Ramnagar, Nainital, Uttarakhand Date: October 22 Authorities demolished two mazars (shrines), alleging they were illegal structures on private land near the national highway. The demolitions were carried out using JCBs under police deployment after the notice period expired.

Location: Jwalapuri, New Delhi Date: October 20 At a Garba and Shastra Puja (weapon-worship) programme organised by Maa Bhagwati Adhyatmik Seva Sangh on Vijayadashami, participants brandished swords while children joined the gathering in chanting the slogan, “Durga ban, Kali ban, kabhi na burqewali ban” (“Become Durga, become Kali, never become a woman who wears a burqa”).

Location: Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Date: October 18 At a Shastra Puja (weapon-worship) programme organised at Siddheshwari Dham Akhada, participants displayed and worshipped firearms, swords, and other traditional weapons.

Location: Banda, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra Date: October 15 During a Hindu awareness campaign, BJP MLA Nitesh Rane promoted the conspiracy theories of “love jihad” and “land jihad”, claimed that money earned from halal products funded “jihad”, and described India as already being a Hindu Rashtra. He claimed that Muslims were safe among Hindus but Hindus were unsafe among Muslims, expressed support for Bajrang Dal and spread anti-Muslim disinformation by alleging that Muslims were required to spit on things, including air conditioners serviced by Muslim technicians. He also used derogatory terms such as “dadiwala” and “topiwala”, claimed that Muslims sold goods to Hindus after spitting on them and warned Muslims against attending Garba events, accusing them of entrapping Hindu women through “love jihad”.

Location: Raipur, Chattisgarh Date: October 13 During a Garba celebration, Hindu Jagran Manch leader Mayank Goswami peddled the anti-Muslim conspiracy theory of “love jihad,” alleging that “vidharmis” were targeting Hindu women. He urged women to embody Hindu goddesses and cultivate "shatru bodh" (awareness of the enemy), warning that “vidharmis” were watching them like "vultures" (gidh).

Location: Bangaon, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal Date: October 19 At a Sanatan Dharma outreach event organised by Hindu Suraksha Samiti, speaker Sujoy Ghosh demanded that Hindu names be promptly added to electoral rolls under the SIR process, while calling for Muslims to be deported to Bangladesh based on religious markers such as skullcaps. He demanded that Muslims be displaced from jobs to make way for Hindus, called for the permanent continuation of a “Hindu Samrat” chief minister, and advocated mandatory Bhagavad Gita lessons in schools and the establishment of gurukuls. He also threatened deportation for Muslim men who looked at Hindu women and promoted the conspiracy theory of “love jihad”, urging people to inform the organisation so it could take action.

Location: Dumdum, Kolkata,West Bengal Date: October 21 Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) members performed a Shastra Pujan (arms worship) ceremony on Vijayadashami, raising religious slogans and chanting while brandishing swords and other weapons.

Location: Bagnan, Howrah, West Bengal Date: October 21 Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) members organised a Shastra Pujan (arms and weapons worship) ceremony on Vijayadashami, ritually worshipping arms and weapons.

Location: Srirampore, West Bengal Date: October 5 At an event organised by Bharatiyam on 150 years of Vande Mataram, BJP leader Sunil Deodhar delivered an anti-Muslim and anti-Christian speech, claiming that Islam seeks to convert the world and eliminate non-Muslims. He alleged that Muslim invaders abducted and enslaved Hindu women, killed Hindu men, and looted their wealth, claiming that practices such as night-time weddings, early marriage, restrictions on girls’ education, and veiling developed among Hindus to protect women from abduction. Invoking Savarkar’s call for the “Hindu-ization” of politics and the “militarization” of Hindus, he urged Hindus to learn to fight and use weapons, alleging that attempts to remove weapons from depictions of Goddess Durga were part of a conspiracy to disarm and “emasculate” Hindu society. He also claimed that a predominantly Muslim drug mafia was conspiring to make Hindu men impotent. Warning that Hindu youth would respond to attempts to wipe out or convert Hindus with “swords for swords” and “fists for fists,” he condemned Christian missionary conversions and claimed that five lakh girls are abducted by Muslims annually. He called for Islam to be taught in schools, alleging that Muslims consider Hindus “kafirs” and believe that killing or abducting them would earn them a place in Jannat. He described Muslims as potential “human bombs,” urging Hindus to defend themselves. Citing Vivekananda, he claimed that every Hindu who converts to Islam or Christianity adds one more enemy of Hindus. He urged Hindus to prevent their daughters from befriending or entering relationships with non-Hindus, describing such relationships as “poisonous,” and called on Hindus to buy products only from Hindu businesses. He also fearmongered over Muslim population growth, claiming it would outpace Hindu population growth and questioning Hindus’ future political representation and security.

Location: Banda, Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh Date: October 20 VHP-Bajrang Dal members organised a Shastra Puja (weapon worship) programme, displaying and worshipping several firearms and swords. During the event, VHP provincial vice president Rajeev Singh fearmongered about a demographic shift, alleging that the growing “vidharmis” population would allow them to seize political power democratically, make laws, control government jobs and determine land ownership. He warned that Hindus would have nothing left in 50 years and urged them to have three or four children to maintain their majority. He claimed weapons would become useless once “vidharmis” exceeded 50% of the population and urged Hindus to arm themselves by keeping knives and sticks at home.

Location: Nanur, Birbhum, West Bengal Date: October 21 VHP members organised an Astra-Shastra Pujan (arms worship) ceremony on Vijayadashami, ritually worshipping swords and other weapons.