Kochi, November 28: “The God has created the cow for common man. She is not just a milk-giving animal but is the foundation of our way of life, way for worship, culture and economy. She is an strong foundation of natural balance in the universe. She provides all the ingredients required for purification of the environment,” said Shri KC Kannan, Sharirik Shikshan Pramukh of RSS. He was addressing the welcome meeting of Vishwa Mangal Gou Gram Yatra organised here today at Rajendram Grounds.

Shri said the Indian breeds of our cows have deliberately been spoiled by cross breeding them with foreign bulls. “This must be stopped and efforts should be made in every village to improve the indigenous breeds with the pure Indian bulls,” he said ridiculing that we export beef and import cow dung. He said the industrialisation process began during the regime of Pt Nehru not only increased the number of slaughter houses in the country but also adversely affected our entire rural system. He said urbanization of villages is not development but the real development is to provide the facilities and technology available in cities in all villages. Citing the Lodha Commission Report prepared in 2002, he said there were 431 cattle on 1000 people in 1951 which decreased to 278 in 1980 and is expected to remain only 20 by the year 2010.

Smt Shashikala, state president of Hindu Ekay Vedi, said we might have got political Independence but we are still mentally slave. Our constitution is still following the policies enacted during the British rule. She said the cow is the creature of the nature which has been accorded by the God with miraculous beauty, strength and qualities. She said the growing killing of the cow has spoiled the balance of human life, which is going to assume a dangerous form in near future.

Presiding over the meeting former Superintendent of Police Shri Padmanabhan said India has been a leader in milk production in the world but with the decreasing number of cows the milk production has adversely affected and today it is hard to find the milk of an Indian breed cow.

The Yatra was accorded traditional welcome as it reached Kochi city. Thousands of people participated in the meeting organised at Rajendrama Grounds. National Secretary of the Yatra Shri Shankarlal was handed over 75,000 signatures collected from Ernakulam district of the state.