Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath while speaking with media said, ‘his state was ready to protect everyone – man or cow. But such incidents, he added, were being given ‘unnecessary importance’ because of the Congress’ intentions to ‘make a mountain out of a molehill’.
He also added, “Humans are important and cows are also important. Both have their own roles in nature.”
UP chief also used Rajnath Singh’s statement as cover, stating that Congress was responsible for the violence in 1984 after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
“These incidents are given unnecessary importance. If you talk about mob lynching, what was 1984? The Congress’ intention of making a mountain of a molehill won’t be successful,” he said.
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In an interview with news agency ANI on Wednesday, the Yogi Adityanath said his government will provide protection to everyone. “But it is the responsibility of every individual, every community and every religion to respect each other’s sentiments,” he said.
His statements come hours after when an angry mob brutally trashed four people in western Uttar Pradesh over suspicious of cow theft. The four men were transporting a buffalo early morning when the mob decided to beat them up without any proof whatsoever.
Thankfully police came in to rescue four men trapped in a crowd who were all ready to beat them to death. Policemen had to struggle for half an hour with the mob to convince them to not take the law into their hands.
Villagers claimed that the castles these individuals carrying in their van were poisoned.
Villagers alleged that they caught the men taking away the dead buffalo in a pick-up van. The buffalo had been poisoned by the men, they alleged.
The men, two Hindus, and two Muslims were beaten, dragged and abused.
A mobile video showing these men praying to the angry mob to leave them, ‘we are not cattle thief,’said by the men repeatedly, the video quickly circulated the internet.
They told the mob that he had gone to the village to pick up a dead buffalo on the instructions of a contractor he works for. The man says he was asked to take the buffalo to a designated spot given to him by the contractor. The crowd refused to believe him.