COW SLAUGHTER HISTORY
Bajrang Dal: National Campaign for Cow Protection
The first National Convention of the Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), was held at Prayag on January 20, 1995. More than 1.5 lakh activists undertook a pledge for the protection of the cow. The highlight of the Convention was a solemn declaration by the delegates that neither the cow will be allowed to be slaughtered nor the country will be allowed to be disintegrated.
The president, Shri Jaybhan Singh Pavaiya said the companions of Babur were given a fitting lesson while a similar lesson would be taught this time to those who are slaughtering the cows. The cow protection movement has been active since 1857. All kinds of attempts from appeals to indefinite fasts were made by Gandhi, Dayanand, Lal-Bal-Pal, Aurobindo and other patriotic national leaders. However, nothing happened! The Constitution has adequate provision to protect the cow and it forms an important agenda of the directive principles for Gram Panchayat also. He added that all kinds of efforts and rules proved useless because of the appeasement policy of the governments which were looking at the block votes of the so-called minorities.
The Bajrang Dal chief called upon the Hindu youths to install such a government at the centre that would ban the slaughter of the Gomatha (by) enacting a central law.
In a unanimous resolution the Bajrang Dal has declared that it would launch a gigantic drive from March 20, for the protection of cow. Acharya Dharmendra, Ashok Singhal, Acharya Giriraj Kishore and the Secretary General of the Bajrang Dal. Shri Surendra Jain also addressed the Convention (which) was inaugurated by Jagadguru Shankaracharya Vasudevanand Saraswati.
(Source: The Organiser, 25 February, 1996)
Religion preaches that the way to truth is service and science provides us the means to do so. -
Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma,
President of India
The world must realize that the Government which has been so brutal and ruthless against my family would be doing worse things to the common Mohajirs, MQM leaders and its workers.
Altaf Hussain, MQM Leader
Thoughts of Abul Kalam Azad
"If an angel were to descend from the high heavens Discard Hindu-Muslim Unity and within 24 hours and proclaim from the height of the Qutub Minar, Swaraj is yours,' I will refuse the proffered Swaraj, but will not budge an inch from my stand. The refusal of Swaraj will affect only India, while the end of our unity will be the loss of the entire human world."
Congress Presidential Address, Delhi, 1923
"I am a Muslim and profoundly conscious of the fact that I have Islam's glorious tradition of the last thirteen hundred years. I am not prepared to lose even a small part an Indian, an essential part of the indivisible unity of that legacy. I am equally proud of the fact that I am Indian nationhood."
Congress Presidential Address, Ramgarh, 1940
"The two-nation theory was the death-knell of a life of faith and belief you will see that those on whom you rely for support will have forsaken you and left you helpless at the mercy of fate.
" Speech in Jama Masjid, Delhi, 1547
Tributes to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
"We have had great men and we shall have great men; but that peculiar and special type of greatness that Maulana Azad represented is not likely to be reproduced in India or anywhere else."
-Jawaharlal Nehru, Lok Sabha, 24 February, 1958
The greatest service which the Maulana did was to teach people of every religion that there are two aspects " religion. One separates and differentiates and creates hatred. This is the false aspect. The other, the true spirit of religion brings people together, it creates understanding. It lies in the spirit of service, in sacrificing self for others. It implies belief in unity, in the essential unity of things."
-Zaldr Husain, 23 February, 1958
Government Statement on Manuscripts of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
A preliminary check of the collection has been done and it has been found that all personal papers and manuscripts of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad are physically there in the ICCR library. However, five manuscripts of works by other authors from the collection have not been located in the designated section. The details are:
1. Kulliyat-e-Sadi of Sadi Mushihuddin
2. Diwan Brahman
3. Diwan Shahi Sabzrate
4. Diwan Nizam
5. Diwan Frishta M. Quasim
Steps have been taken to trace the documents
ICCR has separately undertaken a programme for lamination of rare works from the Maulana Azad collection and will also commence a programme of microfilming for the preservation of these books and papers.
(Source: LSUQ No. 1172 dated 11.3.1996 by S.P. Yadav and G. Devi)
