Swamy: Centre will enact law to ban cow slaughter

Mumbai, June 18: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday said the Modi government will bring in a law banning cow slaughter across the country.

“We don’t have a law right now, but still we have two years to go... After that five years more... So a law banning cow slaughter, which is in the concurrent list, would be enacted across the country,” Mr Swamy said at a national meet on “Bos Indicus: The Glorious Indian Cow” organised by Virat Hindustan Sangam (VHS).

VHS is a social outfit formed by Mr Swamy himself.

“We have to safeguard the cow for a variety of reasons. Cow represents our mental liberation. So

We have to safeguard the cow for a variety of reasons... so our commitment to safeguard cow is intact

— Subramanian Swamy, BJP leader

our commitment to safeguard cow is intact,” he said.

The conference was jointly organised by the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and Iskcon.

He said there would be no dearth of funds to protect the cows or to construct “gaushalas”.

“We must elevate the status of gau-rakshaks and give them the certificate, so that no one intercepts and kills someone on the roads. All the violence that took place was by the criminals. I think gaurakhshaks are doing a great service and a new cadre of gau-rakshaks of Hindustan will be created,” he said.

“The SC has repeatedly said that eating beef is not an essential part of Islam... And there is no law that can prevent us from legislating that you can not eat beef.”