Hindu politician offers cash rewards for attacks on Christian leaders
Hindu Indian politician Gopichand Padalkar has offered large cash rewards for violent attacks on Christian missionaries and leaders.
Padalkar called missionaries “pythons” and said bulldozers should be used to crush them.
His comments come against a backdrop of rising Hindu violence against India’s Christian minority. From 2014 to 2025, violence attacks against Christians and Christian churches in India have risen 555%, according to the United Christian Forum. 834 violent attacks were recorded in 2024 and 378 for the first half of 2025. The Hindu government of India ignores or encourages the violence. For example, in March 2025, 20 tribal Christians from Sukma District in Chhattisgarh filed a petition detailing systematic violence and intimidation, but the High Court ultimately dismissed their case.
Furthermore, conversion laws across states are used to punish Christians for evangelism or publicly professing their faith. India currently has 12 state-level anti-conversion laws in place, including in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Arunachal Pradesh.
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