{"id":7362,"date":"2009-01-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/07\/hindu-saint-seeks-ban-on-cow-slaughter\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-saint-seeks-ban-on-cow-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/07\/hindu-saint-seeks-ban-on-cow-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Saint Seeks Ban on Cow Slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?newsid=1219465\">www.dnaindia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 7, 2009: Hindu organizations will soon launch a unique rath yatra to pressure the Indian government to impose a complete ban on cow slaughter. Announcing this at a press conference here on Tuesday, Jagadguru Swami Raghaveshwar Bharati, the Shankaracharya of Gokarna Pitha, Karnataka, said efforts should be made to declare cow a national animal and protect it. &#8220;The Congress-led UPA government at the Centre should move in this direction,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Giving details about the rath yatra, the Shankaracharya said, &#8220;We will soon launch a 108-day yatra to push for this ban. The yatra, which will spread the message &#8220;Save the cow, save the village,&#8221; will be flagged off at Kurukshetra in Haryana on September 28, Vijaya Dashami. It will culminate at Nagpur, Maharashtra, on Makar Sankranti in 2010 after a 20,000 km journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;Meetings will be held at 400 places across the country. A signature campaign will also be run. We expect to collect around 500 million signatures and submit the document to president Pratibha Patil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Shankaracharya also asked that Hindu organizations be protected from Christian and muslim groups, but did not name any specific measures, saying only that &#8220;Hindus are in danger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.dnaindia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 7, 2009: Hindu organizations will soon launch a unique rath yatra to pressure the Indian,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}