While addressing a public meeting in Telangana, Modi said: “I want to tell everybody to beware of these fake cow protectors”.
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Modi in his speech assured the people of Telangana of all support from the Centre.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that cooperative federalism was the only way to take the country forward, and his government was working for this. “It should be our responsibility to save and respect Dalits”, Modi said. They want to create tension in society. “Only then the message will go”, he said.
The governor, he said, hands over non-milching cows abandoned by people to farmers and ask them to link cows with cultivation as the cow urine and cow dung improves the soil fertility.
“We also urge the state governments to take strict legal action against such people”, he added.
Without naming opposition parties, Modi said, “I know why a storm is being created against us these days”. Many foreign policy experts have raised doubts about what they see as a “shift” by India towards a more robust lining up with the US.
“Some people think they have the contract over Dalit issues and consider Dalit votes as their property”.
Yesterday too, in his first Town-Hall in Delhi, PM Modi had strongly rebuked the cow vigilantes, saying majority were “anti-social” elements running “shops” in the name of cow protection which made him “angry”.
Modi has tried to reach out to the Dalit community through government’s flagship programmes of Stand-Up India, providing soft loans by banks to financially weaker sections, and also by providing LPG cooking gas cylinders to the weaker sections of society.
“Walls are being built by some to divide society”. Modi unveiled a plaque in Medak district’s Komatibanda village in Gajwel constituency, represented in the Assembly by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, and formally turned on a water tap on the premises to mark the occasion. If they are true protectors, they should realise that most cows die because of plastic, not slaughter.
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In Punjab – ruled by the BJP in partnership with the Akali Dal and where elections will be held early next year – the soap and dairy industries have complained about cow vigilantes. In his yesterday’s meeting at LB stadium, he once again fired on the issue of fake cow protectors and asked for the protection of Dalits.
