Member of Parliament from Rajmahal Lok Sabha and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader (JMM), Vijay Hansdak came down heavy on Bharatiya Janata Party during a party worker conference in Sahibganj district of Jharkhand. He did not even miss to use derogatory words against the ruling government in his attack on BJP.[Read More…]
Tag: Gau Rakshaks
Jharkhand: Adivasi woman fights against ‘Gau Rakshaks’ who killed her husband
Often, families of victims of state violence are dejected, believing the state and police to be too powerful, and are resigned to taking the compensation offered and keeping their rage to themselves. Then there are families who keep ‘the file’ – a sign that for them, the matter is far[Read More…]
Goa: BJP MLA Lobo complaints over beef-shortage, blames ‘gau-rakshaks’ for same
Amid incidents of mob-lynching on the rise, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA M Lobo stood in the Goa Assembly speaking over beef shortage and cow vigilantes being responsible for the same. He said that the BJP-led coalition government failed the beef-eating population in Goa, and that cow vigilantes were not dealt[Read More…]
Kashmir must be handed over to Army, says Pravin Togadia
Pravin Togadia, the international working president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) was in Kashmir after the Amarnath attack. While addressing the meeting of state-level VHP activists on Sunday, he said, “Kashmir should be handed over to the Army for giving a befitting reply to stone pelters and bank robbers. Once that[Read More…]
Tamil Nadu thrashes Gau-rakshaks, evokes mixed responses
While protests against mob-lynching are intensifying across the country, especially when hate crimes have become an everyday phenomenon, an incident in Tamil Nadu, saw police thrashing cow vigilantes who resorted to violence in Dindugal district. As per NewsMinute reports, the vigilantes (members of the Hindu Munnani group) waylaid a truck[Read More…]
Gau-rakshak stabbed student for refusing to click picture
A gau-rakshak on Thursday stabbed a student in Sonipat, mistaking him for a journalist, after the latter refused to click his photograph. The teenager, identified as Shivam, was participating in a protest organised by the Gau Rakshak Seva Dal against cow slaughtering in Kerala last week, said SHO (Gohana) Kuldeep[Read More…]
India is heading towards a pyramidal decentralised mafia state: Arun Shourie
While Modi government is on a spree of amendments, it is quite hard to foretell its effects on the country in the long run. Be it on the economic or social front, the BJP government have been introducing new laws, scrapping or updating the old ones. Significantly, imposing laws unacceptable[Read More…]
Cow vigilantes ‘not our people’, says Nitin Gadkari
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has clarified that the BJP and the Sangh family support a ban on cow slaughter, but “condemn” vigilantism in the name of cow protection. The minister even went on to say that people who are spreading such vigilantism are “not our people”. Gadkari’s remarks are the[Read More…]
Now cows have ambulance service in India
Alwar lynching: Supreme Court issues notice to 6 states
On Friday, the Supreme Court in response to the brutal murder of a man Rajasthan’s Alwar town has issued notices to Rajasthan, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh & Karnataka and sought a detailed reply on a petition regarding cow vigilantism. Supreme Court also asked the Rajasthan government to[Read More…]
Supreme Court to hear petition on seeking ban on ‘gau rakshaks’
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a petition seeking its direction to ban cow vigilante groups for allegedly “creating disharmony among various communities and castes” and indulging in mob violence. A bench comprising of Justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy have sent notices to Centre and Gujarat, Jharkhand, Maharashtra,[Read More…]
Cow-‘hooliganism’: Man dies after being beaten by alleged cow vigilantes in Gujarat
Another shocking incident of ‘cow-hooliganism’ has surfaced from Gujarat. If Una flogging was not enough to cause enough outrage, controversy has erupted over the death of a 29-year old man on Friday after he was allegedly thrashed by so-called cow vigilantes. A footwear salesman, Mohammed Ayyub Shaikh, died due to head injuries[Read More…]
Modi government ‘politicising’ cow protection: Animal Welfare Board member
In what could spell more trouble for the Narendra Modi government, a member of the Animal Welfare Board of India, has now accused the government of “double standards” over its commitment to protect cows. Earlier in the week, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Hindu Mahasabha had already criticised Prime Minister Narendra[Read More…]