Mumbai, March 27 -- Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Nitesh Rane issued a direct threat during the grand Ramnavami procession in Maharashtra's Mumbai on Thursday, March 26, stating that he would "gouge out the eyes" of anyone who looked at the Hindu religion with ill intent.

Videos circulating on social media show Rane addressing the crowd, where he said, "Maybe some people might have forgotten that this is a Hindu Rashtra (Hindu nation). This is not anyone's father's Pakistan."

"Agar kisine bhi hamare Bhagwa ke taraf gandi nazar se dekhega toh unke aankhe nilakle gotiya khelunga (If anyone looks at our saffron religion the wrong way, I will gouge their eyes out and play marbles with it)," he said.

His inflammatory remarks come on the sideli...