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DOCTORWith Hindu party leading India, beef grows more political
A worker feeds cows at a ‘Gaushala’ or shelter for cattle, in New
Delhi, India. Cows have long been sacred to Hindus, worshipped
as a mother figure and associated since ancient times with the
god Krishna. But increasingly, cows are also becoming a tool of
political parties, an electioneering code word and a rallying cry
for both Hindu nationalists and their opponents.
TIM SULLIVAN
Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — The
legislator was full of out-
rage when he arrived in
the north Indian village
days after the killing of a
Muslim farmer who was
rumored to have slaugh-
tered cows. A Hindu mob
had smashed through the
heavy wooden door to the
man’s home, then beat
him to death with his wife’s
sewing machine.
The legislator’s anger,
though, was not about the
killing. Instead, Sangeet
Som was furious that men
had been arrested in the
attack in the village, just 30
miles from New Delhi. Som,
a member of India’s ruling
Bharatiya Janata Party,
called the arrests “atroci-
ties on innocent villagers.”
As for the family of the
dead man, he dismissed
them as “those cow killers.”
A few days later, a half-doz-
en BJP politicians slapped
around a legislator on the
floor of a state legislature,
angry that he had served
beef at a party. In south In-
dia, six members of a left-
ist student political party
were suspended after their
attempt to serve beef cur-
ry on campus to protest
the farmer’s killing set off a
melee. On Friday, violence
swept another northern
village amid rumors that
a cow had been slaugh-
tered, with a crowd, who
had chased down two
Muslim men they suspect-
ed of cow-killing, clashing
with police and burning
several cars. Some villagers
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