In Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district, eight cows reportedly died, and several others fell ill when the district administration moved out 450 cows from the Naveen Gayatri Gaushala in order to install a large TV for PM Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachhata hi Sewa’ speech on September 15.
The incident took place at ‘Naveen Gayatri Gaushala’ in Pipliya Kulmi village of Serapura Panchayat’s, reported Newsclick. The administration reportedly moved out even the cows that were sick and not in a condition to be shifted. Interestingly, only five-six healthy cows were kept in the shed to show off.
Lakhs were spent to build a huge stage and install a television screen for PM Modi’s live speech,which was streamed fora mere three-four minutes due to poor internet connectivity. The cows were moved out of the shed a week before PM Modi’s event, and allegedly were not adequately fed after they were shifted.
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Shyam Tejri, a resident and social worker, told Newsclick, “Since a week, the cows have been locked within the farmers’ mandi where they were neither given proper food nor water which led to the death of eight cows and many more fell ill. The cow shed owner and the district administration were busy in the arrangements for conducting the event and forgot the cows.”
On September 15, 2018, PM Modi unveiled the Gobardhan Yojana in Delhi which was telecast in 17 handpicked districts of the country. These districts were chosen on the basis of their performance in developing bio-fuel. Rajgarh’s ‘Naveen Gayatri Gaushala’ was the only cow shed in Madhya Pradesh selected for the video conferencing.