Chaudhary Laxmi Narayan Singh, a Minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, declared that the only way to save Sanatan Dharm is to build an “Akhand Bharat”, at a protest organised by Hindu Swabhiman Manch against atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh, He proposed conducting a DNA census and asserted that only those who have ‘Bharatvarsha” DNA should be permitted to live in the country. Another speaker led the crowd in singing the Hindu nationalist song “Jaago To”, with provocative lyrics of “When Pratap Shivaji were awakened, all the Mullah and Qazis ran away.”