During the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a tremendous increase in cases of religious conversion where missionaries and fundamentalists took advantage of lockdowns and financial conditions of people to convert them from Hinduism
Local residents who had put up 'for sale' poster in protest in a bid to draw the administration's attention towards the matter of demography change are now getting messages on WhatsApp offering them huge amounts for their homes identifying himself only as 'Muslim man'.
Fefdawala Haji Abdullah's name has surfaced in the recent Bharuch mass conversion case of over 100 tribals. He was also named in the UP mass conversion racket and hawala funding earlier this year.
Certain pockets in Surat where Hindus have become a minority over the years due to demography change, Bajrang Dal has decided to assert the Hindu identity in those areas.