Addressing a social-harmony meeting on Tuesday, the RSS chief expressed concern over what he described as a declining Hindu population and said inducement- or coercion-based religious conversions should be stopped

Shiv Sena (UBT) criticised the BJP for opposing the election of Syed Iqbal as Parbhani mayor, calling it “mental bankruptcy” and accusing the party of double standards and trying to create Hindu-Muslim divisions