Dairy News
Punjab AAP reaches out to dairy farmers, says ‘No question of slaughtering cattle, will work for gau raksha’
Friday, 13/05/2016ASSERTING THAT the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) party had “no intention of hurting the religious sentiments of any community” and that “it too will work for gau raksha (cow protection)” if it comes to power, AAP Thursday said “there is no question of slaughtering non-milch cows or stray bulls in Punjab.”
AAP held its ‘Punjab Bolda Hai’ dialogue with dairy farmers Thursday, with the session headed by its manifesto committee head Kanwar Sandhu.
Sandhu, when asked about AAP’s solution for the stray cattle problem, said, “There is no question of introducing cow slaughter in Punjab. We will aim at streamlining the process to sell cattle to other states and proper certificates will be issued clarifying that cattle is being moved for milk or semen, not for slaughtering. At present, there is no transparency and vigilante groups are harassing farmers even when cattle is sold to other states. AAP understands that certain sections have religious values attached to cows and we have intention to hurt them.”
Asked about how stray cattle will be managed then, he said, “Non-milch and infertile animals will be provided with proper shelters. Farmers expressed that strays damaging their fields. If AAP comes to power, not a single stray will roam on roads or destroy fields.”