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Declare Cow as Rashtra Matha, Hindutva campaigners
The campaign against cow slaughter has taken a new turn now. The campaigners of gow Mata now want it to be declared as Rashtra Mata. Fiery Hindutva mascot and BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has now launched a campaign for declaring cow as ‘Rashtra Mata’, claiming his demand “embodies the sentiment of every Indian.”
The campaign against cow slaughter has taken a new turn now. The campaigners of gow Mata now want it to be declared as Rashtra Mata. Fiery Hindutva mascot and BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has now launched a campaign for declaring cow as ‘Rashtra Mata’, claiming his demand “embodies the sentiment of every Indian.”
The Hindu Yuva Vahini, an organisation led by the controversial yogi, has launched a missed call subscription initiative in Aligarh to solicit support for the cause of sanrakshan (protection) and samvardhan (expansion) of the bovine clan. “This (the initiative for seeking ‘Rashtra Mata’ status for the cow) embodies the sentiment of every Indian,” the 42-year-old BJP MP from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh adding that the cow clan is the spinal cord of Hindu religion because of the role it plays in sustaining the agrarian economy .
The BJP lawmaker said since it was not possible to secure such a status for cow across the world, “we want it to happen at least in India.” RSS, the ideological mentor to the right-wing Hindutva outfits, had last month made a strong pitch for protecting the gau vansh and said merely enacting laws to ban cow slaughter by some BJP-ruled states was not enough.The government must ensure that the law against cow slaughter is implemented effectively, the RSS general secretary Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi had said last month.
The BJP government in Haryana recently imposed a complete ban on the sale of beef in any form. after a similar law was enacted by the saffron-ruled Maharashtra.While Haryana cow law provided 10 years jail the Maharashtra law enabled only 5 years jail and a penalty of Rs 10,000.
