Hyderabad, May 6 -- Soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured the win in the West Bengal Assembly elections, passengers on an IndiGo flight were captured chanting religious slogans.

A video surfaced on Wednesday, May 6, that showed a man, presumably from the state, expressing joy by raising religious slogans Jai Shri Ram, Har Har Mahadev, Jai Durga, Jai Bangla and Bharat Mata Ki Jai. His fellow passengers were heard echoing the chants to celebrate the saffron party's win.

Communal incidents have already trickled through following the election results, with calls for genocide, forceful changing of historic Muslim-sounding street names and violence across Bengal reported.

The state BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, likely to be name...