Rather than appreciating efforts of Hindus to save cows and initiating a honest dialogue with “these simple, non-fancy gau-rakshaks”, Modi had termed 80 per cent of them as “anti-social”, he said.
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“Some people want “tandav” (tension) in the society in the name of “cow protection”, said Modi adding “I want to tell the state governments to act against fake gau rakshaks”.
“Special dossiers are made on terrorists and serial rapists”.
“It is agonising that despite knowing the gamut of butchering cows and cow progeny, rather than making efforts to protect the cow, the head of the government has put the cow protectors’ lives in danger”, Togadia said at a press conference here.
Speaking at ABP News’ Press Conference, Ramdev stopped short of criticising Modi for describing 80% gau-rakshaks as anti-socials. “The VHP requests the head of the nation to explain this statement.”Linking atrocities on the Schedule caste Hindu and Cow Protection is a planted mischief to target Hindu”. “It is absolutely humiliating and demoralising for Hindu cow protectors when the Prime Minister says he gets angry with them”.
Togadia also questioned Modi as to what he did as CM of Gujarat to stop usage of plastic, which claims cow lives more than slaughtering. He accused “the government of giving clean chit to butchers and clamping down on Hindu cow protectors”, and pointed out that the Modi government has promised to ban beef export but “it has actually gone up by 44 % in the last two years”.
Expressing “utmost dissatisfaction and agony” over Modi’s remarks, VHP’s acting president Pravin Togadia said that instead of appreciating efforts of Hindus in protecting cows and initiating a honest dialogue with these “simple gau rakshaks”, Modi termed 80 per cent of them “anti-social”.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad ever since its inception on Aug 29, 1964, has been running various activities and programmes to protect cow. He also demanded that PMO announce a 24-hour “gau rakshak helpline” soon after the passage of this law.
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“If you ask, I can gather every person involved in this work (cow protection) from every tehsil”.
