India, Dec. 26 -- From malls to schools and marketplaces, days leading up to Christmas reportedly saw incidents of vandalism and disruptions to events in several parts of India, including Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Assam, among others.

While Christmas decorations were destroyed at a mall in Chhattisgarh's Raipur, a BJP functionary allegedly got into a heated altercation with a visually-impaired woman during a Christmas event in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur.

Such incidents even sparked reactions from the Opposition, with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor saying Christmas was marked by "fear and anxiety" for Christians, and party leader Ashok Gehlot calling such incidents "worrying and condemnable".

Here is how vandalism on Christmas unfolded in p...