[dropcap]A[/dropcap] young boy called Aryan Mishra was killed by the cow terrorists in Haryana. The Times of India wrote that the boy was killed ‘mistakenly’. Why did the Jain paper say that it was a mistake and not a crime? Is it because the person was not Asif or Mohammad in place of Aryan Mishra?
Like bulldozer justice, Love Jihad and other issues, cow vigilantism too is deliberately made to criminalise Muslims. While it might be possible in the common parlance that communities and people have prejudices against each other when it becomes part of the rule book of the establishment then it will only bring disrepute and disaster. Law, say every good book of modern democracy, must remain neutral in all forms, gender, religion or region and must be committed to statute books and in layman’s language, as per the constitution.
What has happened in Haryana was bound to happen. One day the fire that you are putting on, will bring you too in its periphery.
The life of a human being is far less than that of a cow or bovine. Isn’t it a hypocrisy of how much noise we make on the ‘death’ of cows? All these bhakts have killed the entire cow market. Most of the farmers now avoid buying cows and after an age, they go to their ‘old age home’ or what is called gaushala. I can bet, none can run these gaushalas unless they get huge support. The governments are pumping money for it and ‘devotees’ make huge donations daily. So it is a lucrative business. It does not help the gaupalaks, those farmers who keep cows and equally respect them. Of course, they don’t do all dikhawa, and make loud noises about cows, ‘our mother’. If we all were concerned about it, they would not have been left to feed themselves and create a nuisance in open markets, eating polyethene.
The cow devotees or what is called gaubhakts have no time to fight against the owners of beef exporting companies, a majority of them hail from those jaatis who preach to us ‘save cows’. Have we ever heard of any demonstration, any letter written by the Sanghi moral police, their owners to the government of India to ban the beef companies? Why should beef be allowed to be exported? I am sure, the government has all the details and it must act against such companies if its policy is to protect cows and other such bovines.
We expect too much from the political class which blatantly uses the language of a rigid person suffering from prejudices. When you are in power, you follow Rajdharma, as Atal Bihari Vajpayee once said. Perhaps, the Supreme Court can frame some guidelines in this regard and save people from getting slaughtered in the streets. Like bulldozer justice by the government, mob lynching or killings in the name of keeping beef or killing a cow have become India’s version of blasphemy laws which must be stopped at all costs.
The Constitution protects us all and gives equal treatment as per law. The executive has to implement it impartially. It is time for the Supreme Court to see whether the Constitution is not being violated. One is sure that they must be aware of what is happening in India in the name of ‘protection of cows’. It is time we stand up and speak against such brutal murder in the name of cow protection. The track record of the government of Haryana is not great in this regard and only the Supreme Court can ask for a status report of other such cases already pending in the court. Time for monitoring this cow terrorism killing innocent people.
