As right-wing outfits storm two churches before Christmas, MP on edge

Back-to-back incidents involving right-wing groups entering church premises in Madhya Pradesh have triggered violence and political controversy in Jabalpur days ahead of Christmas, with police launching inquiries into allegations of forced religious conversion that church members and visually impaired students have denied.

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The most recent episode unfolded on Monday at a church located behind Hawabagh Women’s College, where members of several right-wing organisations, accompanied by BJP district vice president Anju Bhargava, entered the premises alleging that visually impaired students were being coerced into converting. The situation escalated after a video surfaced online showing Bhargava in a physical altercation with a visually impaired woman inside the church, sparking widespread outrage. Footage circulating on social media shows Bhargava confronting the woman, who was seated inside the church. At one point, Bhargava is seen holding the woman's face during a heated exchange. The woman reacts by grabbing and twisting Bhargava's arm, repeatedly asking her not to touch her and to speak without physical contact. Others present attempt to intervene as tempers