Agartala, Sep 28, 2024, TRIPURATIMES Desk

Agartala, Sep 28: Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati Maharaj established and unfurled the 'Gaudwaj' here at the premises of Jagannath Temple in Agartala on Saturday. He had reached here at Agartala for a spiritual visit as part of his 'Gaudwaj Sthapna Bharat Yatra'.

Swami Avimukteshwaranand, who is campaigning across the nation against cow slaughter and according ‘Mata’ (mother) status to the Indian cow on Saturday said that his campaign is not to cause any disturbances, but to spread a message of protecting cow by according it as not animal but as ‘Mata’.

“Since our nation’s independence, the Centre has been assuring the majority Sanatanis of the country of extending a law with respect to honouring the cow which we claim to be a mother as per the religious books. Till date many governments have come and changed in the country, but no government took the initiative to enforce law on this,” he told reporters.

He said, “We demand that the indigenous cow be granted ‘Pratishtha’ with an amendment in the Constitution and also a stop on cow slaughter.”