Mohit Khanna

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 11

To register their protest against harassment by cow vigilante groups, activists of the Progressive Dairy Farmers Union today took stray cattle to the office of sitting SAD MLA from Jagraon SR Kaler.

Union president Daljit Singh Sadarpura said in the next phase, they would take 500 stray cows to the house of Agricultural Minister Tota Singh, following which 1,000 stray cattle would be taken to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s residence.

Sadarpura, however, appreciated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tough stand against the anti-social elements forming cow vigilante groups and harassing dairy farmers.

He demanded the scraping of the NOC system and stressed on documentation-free transport of cows. He also demanded the immediate arrest of five leaders of a self-styled Gau Raksha Committee, who had tortured and terrorised dairy farmers.

The union members said the so-called cow vigilante groups had ruined the state’s dairy farming business worth Rs2,500 crore.