Hyderabad, June 9 -- With the annual Kanwar Yatra set to begin next month, Muzaffarnagar Swami Yashveer Maharaj referred to the Muslim community with Islamophobic terms like 'jihadis', alleging the Hindu community will no longer tolerate the display of Hindu deities' names in their eateries and shops.

A video of the seer emerged on social media platforms where he says, "There are certain people with a "jihadi" mentality on the Kanwar Yatra route that run hotels, dhabas, tea stalls, juice stalls, sweet shops using the names of our gods and goddesses, or with dharmic names."

He claims that Muslim shop owners spit, urinate and mix substances to make Kanwar devotees commit sacrilege. "Whatever food Hindus eat at such stalls, they (Muslims) ...