The vice-president of the BJP’s Rajasthan unit has said cow smugglers were like “terrorists” and asked the newly-elected Congress government to protest against cow smuggling and slaughter.
“I will call those people terrorists who indulge in cow smuggling and slaughter but do not desist from their actions. It’s strange that none of the Congress leaders protest against the menace. Now, they are in power and they should work to stop such crimes,” Gyan Dev Ahuja told reporters in Alwar on Tuesday.
His comments come three days after a 23-year-old youth, Sagir Khan, was beaten up by a mob in Alwar district on Sunday for allegedly transporting cattle illegally.
Ahuja, a former Ramgarh constituency MLA from Alwar, claimed that there was no mob lynching in the district as such. “It is not a planned murder or beating like murder and rape. It’s people’s anger which burst when police fails to take cognisance.”
He said the people’s anger was a part of a “natural course” as those involved in cow smuggling and slaughter were not able to answer “satisfactorily” when they were stopped.
The Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president said people belonging to the Muslim community should respect the sentiments of the “big brother”, the Hindus, and protest against cow smuggling and slaughter.
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