Declare cow as national animal, stop mob lynchings: Muslim group
The Moolnivasi Muslim Manch in Pune has urged the Centre to declare the cow as India’s national animal, saying the move could help curb mob lynching and communal tensions linked to cow protection.
A Pune-based Muslim organisation has demanded that the cow be declared India’s national animal, arguing the move could help curb mob lynching and communal tensions linked to cow protection. (Source: File) Moolnivasi Muslim Manch in Pune has demanded that the cow should be declared as the ‘national animal’, in an appeal to reduce mob lynchings. Activists led by the president of the Manch Anjum Inamdar on Monday submitted a memorandum to District Collector Jitendra Dudi demanding the same.
A press release by the group said, “In our country, which not only regards the cow as sacred but also accords her the status of a mother, it is deeply distressing to witness the shedding of innocent human blood in her very name. The mob lynching (violence by crowds), the politics of hate, and this malicious game of defaming a specific community (Muslims)—all perpetrated in the name of the cow—must cease immediately. To find a permanent resolution to this issue, the Central Government should urgently declare the cow a ‘National Animal’.”
Inamdar told The Indian Express, “Our religion has not made it compulsory to eat meat. If the cow was to legally receive the status of a National Animal, she would be accorded her rightful respect, and the entire responsibility for her protection would officially devolve upon the designated state machinery. This measure would significantly aid in curbing mob lynching.”
He added that Chief Minister Fadnavis has said that action under MCOCA will be taken.
“MCOCA will not be put on the farmer who sold the barren cow, but it will be put on the transporter. All of this is false love of the government, be it the Maharashtra government or Union government. Our demand is that all these religious issues where religious tensions and riots are created…all these won’t happen. Hindus will also not die and Muslims will also not die. So we demand that the cow should be declared as a national animal,” he said.
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