NEW DELHI: A rally was staged in the national capital demanding to declare cow as the mother of nation. A cow vigilante outfit held a rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi yesterday.

‘Bharatiya Gau Kranti Manch held a protest rally under the banner ‘Gau Mata Rashtrmata Pratishtha Andolan’'. The outfit demanded that the cow should be declared as the mother of the nation, cow slaughter should be banned immediately, and a separate ministry should be formed for the welfare of cows. The cow vigilantes observed Gopashtami yesterday.

Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshvarananda Saraswati said that slaughtering a cow is equivalent to killing 33 crore Hindu gods. Gopal Mani, founder of the Bharatiya Gau Kranti Manch, pointed out that sages and seers of the country have been demanding for years that the cow should be declared as mother of the nation.

Bhagwat Katha narrator Devkinandan Thakur criticized that there are many cow vigilantes in India who risk their lives to catch cow smugglers but the police file FIRs against them which is totally wrong. Thakur also demanded that strict laws and action should be taken against those involved in cow smuggling.