BANGALORE, India – State Governor, H.R. Bharadhwaj advised saints and the sannyasis to exert pressure on the government to enact anti-cow slaughter legislation. He was speaking after inaugurating the World Peace Conference organized by Oswal Parishad in the city [Bangalore] on Sunday Jan. 17, 2010.
He laments that a blanket ban on the slaughter of cows has not yet been enforced in the country. He suspects this to be the fallout of the political equations of projecting enforcement of a ban on cow slaughter as a religious issue. As far as the conserving of cow breeds, politics should not have any say, he opined.
“Shunning of all kinds of violence [ahimsa] has been the crux of every religion. No one should talk lightly of other religions. We should develop high regard for every other religion. None of the religions in the world glorify violence. Still, Jainism is the only religion that has, since its inception, been vociferously upholding non-violence,” he felt.
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