RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat called for social harmony and unity across language, caste, and religion, urging people to treat all Indian languages as national. Opposition leaders from RJD and Congress criticized his appeal as hypocritical, citing alleged racial and linguistic discrimination by the RSS-BJP. They pointed to incidents like the lynching of a Tripura youth, the insertion of Hindi into legislation, and the treatment of Bengali and Kashmiri speakers as examples of this alleged bias.