Cattle deaths in Jaipur goshala: Article in RSS journal slams BJP govt

This is not the first time the RSS has attacked Vasundhara Raje’s BJP government in Rajasthan. Last year, the Sangh had backed a major agitation against the government over the demolition of temples in Jaipur’s walled city.

As part of a damage control move, several ministers in the Raje government had at the time called the facility a cattle “rehabilitation centre” instead of a cowshed.

“Those who made tall statements, had they asked their party workers to offer service at the Goshala, some more cows could have been saved,” the RSS’s kshetra prachar pramukh Mahendra Singhal was quoted as saying in the article.

The incident hurt the sentiments of “gau bhakts” across the country, prant Sanghachalak Ramesh Agarwal said. He urged the Raje government to work towards preventing a similar recurrence in future.

In the Panchjanya article, Ishwar Bairagi argued, “It may be a rehabilitation centre in government records (but) the community knows it as a Goshala. There are more cows here because while people sell off other animals to butchers, they can’t do so with cows due to legal hurdles and religious feelings.”