Saffrony law of 'Gau Rakshaks' (Cow vigilantes)

In our country the ‘holier-than-thou’ disposition is a legacy and bigotry is a birthright in privileged societies of hardliners. The result is- unsolicited services being endowed on the population freely, which favours the privileged, and overlooks the deprived.

The case of the Gau Rakshaks or Cow vigilantes comes under this description.

It's the duty of human beings to preserve and protect the flora and fauna: although, if it costs the life of a fellow human being, then something has gone awry in the implementation.

The nation has been inflamed since the murders of: a Muslim boy on a train alleged as a ‘beef eater’; of Pehlu khan’s- a cattle trader's murder in Rajasthan; Alimuddin Ali’s lynching in June 2017 on the suspicion of carrying beef; Mohammad Akhlaq’s in 2015 and many more which might have gone unnoticed- is it protection of “gau Mata” or some sadistic orgy? The response to this was the slaughtering of an innocent calf by some members of Kerala youth Congress. Despicable, is the word for this exchange of hate!

Even after admonishments from the mentors themselves aka prime minister Narendra Modi and the RSS, the lynchings and brutalisation hasn't stopped, it's become such a nuisance that the monsoon session of parliament is holding debates on the destruction wrought by “Gau Rakshaks” through the usurpation of the rights of minorities.

The marginalised sections have been subsisting through the consumption, skinning and tanning of animals, there are many socio-economic or cultural roles they are playing through their work. Cooperation is expected of the privileged, not autocracy.

It's time that these so called “Rakshaks” stop acting like “bhakshaks.”  Laws must be made, to control this power play and undue violence, which only underlines the insecurity of the vigilantes, whose primitive actions can only be deciphered through a detailed Freudian analysis.