All India Hindu Union's Coronavirus 'protection' Party

NEW DELHI, INDIA - MARCH 14: A member and supporter of the Hindu organisation 'Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha' drinks cow urine as a potential cure for the new coronavirus as he attends a 'gaumutra (cow urine) party' to fight against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, organised by the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha's president Chakrapani Maharaj on March 14, 2020 in New Delhi, India. Many members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party have in the past claimed that cow urine and cow dung had medicinal properties and can cure deadly ailments like cancer. As the number of Covid-19 cases surge in various provinces of India a lawmaker from Modi's right wing Hindu nationalist party told the legislative house in northeastern state of Assam that cow urine and cow dung could cure the deadly coronavirus which has led to over 5,000 deaths globally

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