Belgaum: Bharatiya Janata Party's Lok Sabha member from Belgaum Suresh C. Angadi has called upon party workers to give up eating meat in support of the party's anti-cow slaughter campaign.

Talking to presspersons during a visit to a `Goshala' in Halga village off the NH4, about 12 km from here, on Sunday, Mr. Angadi said the BJP was committed to preventing cow slaughter and promote vegetarianism.

Mr. Angadi and Rajendra Jain, secretary, Beglaum unit of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), alleged that senior officials in the district administration were acting in contrary to the provisions of The Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Preservation Act 1964.

They said SPCA activists had intercepted trucks transporting 70 bullocks from Karnataka to Goa at Jamboti Cross in Khanapur taluk on Belgaum-Goa Road on August 2.

The authorities housed the cattle in the Goshala. They alleged that some officials, under pressure from leaders of a political party were pressuring SPCA members to release or sell the seized cattle.

They criticising the Khanapur Police for not registering FIR against the persons illegally transporting the cattle to slaughterhouses in Goa. Most of the bullocks seized were healthy and young, they said.

Plea to people

Mr. Angadi and Mr. Jain called upon the people to open Goshalas in their villages or hand over cattle to youth if they cannot feed them. The youth can earn at least Rs. 100 from "gomutra" and cow dung every day for its medicinal values. There is a greater need to create awareness on the medicinal values in cow's milk, urine and cow dung, they added.

BJP's district General Secretary Raghavendra Pujari, City President Babulal Tiwari and other senior leaders of the party were present.

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