India: ISKCON sues Maneka Gandhi over ‘greatest cheat,’ ‘promoting cows to butchers’ comment

The Global Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) on Friday (Sep 29), filed a $1.2 million (Rs 100 crore) defamation take a look at to Indian lawmaker Maneka Gandhi from High Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP). This comes days after she used to be allegedly heard calling the non secular organisation the “greatest cheat” and accused the organisation of promoting cows from their gaushalas (cowsheds) to butchers.

“The excellent cheat in India this day is ISKCON. They place gaushalas for which they procure unlimited advantages from the govtto speed them. They procure enormous land…every part. I steady visited their Anantput Gaushala. No longer a single dry cow is explain. All are dairies. There may be no longer any longer a single calf. It plot all of them were bought. ISCKON is promoting all its cows to the butcher,” Maneka Gandhi could perchance even be heard asserting in the video.

ISKCON Vice President Radharamn Das acknowledged that the non secular organisation will legally pursue the case in opposition to the dilapidated Union minister till the reside, alongside side that the Indian lawmaker’s comments were downhearted and ruin the sentiments of ISKCON devotees, supporters, and well-wishers across the sphere.

He added, “How could perchance an MP who used to be a dilapidated minister lie about ISKCON with none proof? She acknowledged she went to Anantpur gaushala, but of us there can’t take into accout Maneka Gandhi visiting there. So sitting at dwelling, she is making these baseless allegations.”

This additionally comes days after ISKCON, primarily based on the viral video, ISKCON refuted Maneka Gandhi’s claims, and deemed them “unsubstantiated” and “deceptive”.

ISKCON spokesperson, Yudhistir Govinda Das, asserted the non secular organisation’s commitment to cow and bull safety, claiming that these animals are no longer bought to butchers.

“ISKCON has been on the forefront of cow and bull safety and care no longer steady in India but globally. The cows and bulls are served for his or her life no longer bought to butchers as alleged,” Yudhistir Govinda Das wrote on X.

“ISKCON has pioneered cow safety in many aspects of the sphere where pork is a staple weight reduction program. Within India, ISKCON runs more than 60 gaushalas retaining a whole bunch of sacred cows and bulls and providing personalised esteem his or her whole lifetime. Many of the cows currently served in ISCKON’s gaushalas were introduced to us after being chanced on abandoned, injured, or rescued from being slaughtered,” the observation added.

Maneka Gandhi, an animal rights activist, is the elder daughter-in-law of dilapidated Indian High Minister Indira Gandhi but has no longer been associated with the Congress procure together. Her political profession has been associated with the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering since 1999.

The 67-year-faded dilapidated journalist is a member of India’s lower dwelling of parliament, Lok Sabha, from the Sultanpur constituency in the Indian negate of Uttar Pradesh.

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