Chief whip of ruling Congress in State Legislative Council Ivan D’Souza said banning the Hindu Jagarana Vedike (HJV), whose activists allegedly BJP worker Praveen Poojary to death in Udupi, will not deter “cow vigilantes” from undertaking the “hidden agenda.”
Noting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement, Mr. D’Souza hit out at the cow brigade and said many of self-styled “Gau-rakshaks” were anti-socials. If the government bans HJV, activists form another organisation and launch a cow-protection drive, he said.
In the name of cow protection, HJV activists have been dividing society and spreading disharmony among various castes and religions. The government has to take stern action against cow vigilantes and “imposing the ban is not the solution,” the Congress leader from Mangaluru said and urged the government to order a probe to nab all those involved in Poojary’s death.
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Poojary, a former president of the BJP committee of Kenjur village, was beaten to death on Wednesday night when he and two others transporting four cows from a house at Muddur in a van towards Udupi.