Hundreds of right-wing Hindu activists and monks united at a convention this week to pledge: They will turn India, a constitutionally secular republic, into a Hindu nation, even if doing so requires dying and beating.
Hindu Mahasabha leader Pooja Shakun Pandey said, “If 100 of us are ready to kill 20 lakh of them, we will win and make India a Hindu Rashtra.” , “Be prepared to kill and go to jail.”
Even by the standards of rising anti-Muslim fury in India, the three-day conference in Haridwar, 150 miles north of New Delhi, made the harshest and most dangerous call for violence in recent years.
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