A Hindutva mob armed with wooden sticks stormed Magneto Mall in Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh, on Wednesday and vandalised Christmas decorations during “Chhattisgarh bandh,” against alleged religious conversions.
A complaint has been registered at Bengaluru’s Koramangala police station after a video showing a man aggressively interrupting what appears to be a Christian prayer programme went viral on social media, triggering widespread outrage and calls for police action.
In yet another instance of a Hindutva attack on Christians, a video circulating on X shows members of the Bajrang Dal allegedly confronting a group of Christians in Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar and forcing them to leave the area after accusing them of religious conversion for wearing Santa Claus hats.
A BJP–RSS member has been arrested for allegedly attacking a Christmas carol group comprising children in Puthussery, Palakkad, just a kilometre away from Walayar, where a Dalit migrant worker from Chhattisgarh was brutally lynched.
Members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal forced their way into a church in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, on 10 August, alleging that the Christian community was engaged in forced conversions.