Mangalore: Campaign Against Anti-Cow Slaughter Act Held in City
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Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (SR/CN)
Mangalore, June 11: A march against the Cow Slaughter Prohibition and Protection Act, took place in the city from Dr Ambedkar Circle near Jyothi to DC office on Friday June 11.
The march was organized by former MLA and poet L Hanumanthayya who said that the Act is against the people of minority tribes, castes, and creeds who all partake of beef.
“Unyielding cows which cause a loss of Rs 36,000 to the farmers are used as beef and this is also the income for a poor farmer. And the government is bringing in this act to create disturbance in the minds of the people of different castes and religions and not for any developmental purpose”, he said.
A K Subbayya, president, campaign against Cow Slaughter Prohibition and Protection Act, said the government is simply bringing cows to Pinjarpol Mysore and they cause the animals’ early death by either giving it salt water or injections. The bones are exported abroad for making medicines and skin for leather materials. This Act is intended to hurt Muslims but it is affecting the farmer”, he alleged.
Subbayya also lashed out at Congress leaders who did not come for this campaign and said that they ask for help only during election time and don’t co-operate at other times.
On Monday June 28, people from all the villages will protest in Bangalore during the Vidhan Sabha Adiveshan to inform the government that they are ready to do anything to change the thoughts of the government.
U T Khader, MLA, Walter Cyril Pinto, president, Catholic Sabha, Shahida Tasleem, president, National Women’s Front, M B Nasir, district general secretary, Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), N Venkatesh, Karnataka Dalit Sangarsh Samiti, Ali Hassan, president, Meat Dealers’ Association, Mangalore, Illiyas Muhammad, president, Popular Front of India, K R Sriyan, state committee member, CPI(M), and N Venkatesh, member, Karnataka Dalit Sangarsh Samiti, were present in the protest.