{"id":14938,"date":"2016-08-06T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T08:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=14935&preview_id=14935"},"modified":"2016-08-06T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T08:40:18","slug":"congress-to-organise-gau-raksha-yatra-maha-aarti-in-jaipur-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=14938","title":{"rendered":"Congress to organise \u2018Gau Raksha Yatra\u2019, \u2018maha-aarti\u2019 in Jaipur today | The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Inside the Hingonia Bovine Animal Rehabilitation Centre in Jaipur. (Express Photo by Rohit Jain Paras)<\/span><\/div>\n

The Congress on Friday blamed the BJP government in Rajasthan for the \u2018poor\u2019 condition of cow shelters in the state and demanded a rescue campaign for sick cows at Hingonia Bovine Animal Rehabilitation Centre where several cows have died over the last few days.<\/p>\n

The Jaipur unit of Congress also announced that it will organise a \u201cGau Raksha Padyatra\u201d, a walk for cow protection in the state capital on Saturday, which will be followed by a \u2018maha-aarti\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach day hundreds of cows are dying at Hingonia gaushala yet the government and the municipal corporation have been incapable of checking and preventing their deaths,\u201d party\u2019s Jaipur district president Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will seek protection for cows through Lord Krishna, because neither the government nor the municipal corporation is taking the deaths seriously. People of not just the state, but of the nation are angry over cow deaths here. We have already decided to stop the corporation from catching any more (stray) cows till it resolves the issues with Hingonia cowshed, as it has become their slaughterhouse,\u201d Khachariyawas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite seeking votes in the name of cows, the BJP government is not doing anything to take care of them and is trying its best to suppress this issue, rather than taking action against the guilty,\u201d said Khachariyawas, who will lead the protest march and walk barefoot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation is very bad and thousands of cows are living in a miserable condition. The chief minister should visit the gaushala and announce a rescue campaign for the animals,\u201d said leader of Opposition Rameshwar Dudi, who visited the centre on Friday. He also held the state government and its officers \u2018responsible\u2019 for the \u2018sorry state of affairs\u2019 at the gaushala.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe BJP does politics in the name of cows but when it comes to their state of affairs, the government shows no interest. It is a matter of shame,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Dudi alleged that hundreds of cows have died over the last few days due to \u2018mismanagement and lack of facilities\u2019 at the gaushala.<\/p>\n

Former MPs, party MLAs and other party leaders are expected to participate in the march. However, PCC president Sachin Pilot and former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot are unlikely to participate in the march.<\/p>\n

Following the cow deaths, the Chief Minister\u2019s Officer had issued a statement on Thursday stating that everything is being done to take care of cows, which number over 8,000 at the cowshed, and the ones that died were already unwell when they were picked up as part of a campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inside the Hingonia Bovine Animal Rehabilitation Centre in Jaipur. (Express Photo by Rohit Jain Paras) The Congress on Friday blamed the BJP government in Rajasthan for the \u2018poor\u2019 condition of cow shelters in the state and demanded a rescue campaign for sick cows at Hingonia Bovine Animal Rehabilitation Centre where several cows have died over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18,1134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}