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Government-funded event in India calls for Muslims’ removal
India’s federal government transferred public funds to a hardline Hindu organization that hosted a gathering where speakers openly called for demographic targeting, forced religious conversion and mass deportation of Muslims, raising serious questions about state endorsement of extremist ideology.
The Quint, Indian digital news outlet, reported that the Ministry of Culture sanctioned 6.3 million Indian rupees ($69,500) to Sanatan Sanstha to organize “Sanatan Rashtra Shankhnad Mahotsav,” held in December 2025 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.
Funding was issued under a program commemorating 150 years of the Hindu nationalist song “Vande Mataram,” according to the official response obtained through Right to Information request.
Sanatan Sanstha is a Hindu extremist organization whose members were arrested in connection with bomb blasts, illegal arms seizures, and the murders of activists such as Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare.
At an event financed with taxpayer money, multiple speakers reportedly advanced eliminationist rhetoric directed at India’s Muslim minority, which constitutes roughly 200 million people.
Suresh Chavhanke, head of the Hindutva propaganda channel Sudarshan TV, claimed that “25% Muslims in India presently are infiltrators” and demanded implementation of the National Register of Citizens to “remove them.” Such registry processes have previously raised fears of mass disenfranchisement and statelessness among Muslims.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashwini Upadhyay reportedly urged systematic religious conversion of Muslims, suggesting Hindus actively convert individuals “for fear of government.” Remarks framed conversion not as personal faith decision but as demographic strategy.
Rahul Dewan of Hindu Fund called for what he described as “offensive strategy” to establish “constitutional Hindu Rashtra,” and invoked imagery of large-scale violence in separate comments.
Editor of The Quint, Aditya Menon, questioned why public money was allocated to a gathering where speakers called for demographic “removal” of one community and restructuring of state along religious lines.
India’s Constitution guarantees equality before law and prohibits discrimination based on religion. Yet over the past decade, Hindutva organizations have intensified campaigns portraying Muslims as a demographic threat, foreign infiltrators or civilizational enemy. Rights advocates argue that such rhetoric normalizes exclusion and erodes secular foundations of the republic.
Government-funded event in India calls for Muslims’ removal
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