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KAMADHENU I Mahatma Gandhiji had said, "After attaining Independence, the first job should be to ban cowslaughter from this land forever.”
"The problem of cow protection in Indian is in no way smaller than the problem of Independence. In many aspects, I believe this to be greater than the problem of Independence. Until we are able to find a way of saving the cow, our Independence shall be called meaningless. Protecting the cow is protecting the entire silent creation of the Eshwar. The happiness and progress of India is attached to the cow and its offspring. In India the cow alone is the truest and biggest support for the humans. If you protect the cow, everything else will get protected. I consider cow-slaughter as my own death."
Disregarding these words of Gandhiji, who held protection of cow above Independence, we are turning more impure and sinful with every passing day through the symbolic murder of Gandhi along with the slaughter of cows.
Experience has told us that the 48th amendment in the Constitution has proved futile in protecting the cow. When Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar brought in total ban on cow-slaughter in those states in the shape of the 48th amendment, a stay was brought in at the Supreme Court, with the help of invisible interests and in complete repudiation of compassion and national pride and the amendment was rendered meaningless. Organisations like FAO and UNO interfered to belittle the sovereignity and pride of our country and smothered all voices that arose within. As a result, the foreign
