People Killed in Names of Protecting Cows is Unacceptable, PM Modi Says

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the killing of people by cow vigilantes is unacceptable. "Killing people in the name of Gau Bhakti is not acceptable," he said, stressing ," No person in this nation has the right to take the law in his or her own hands in this country."

While saying that protecting cows, sacred for Hindus, is needed-"No one spoke about protecting cows more than Mahatma Gandhi and Acharya Vinoba Bhave," he said,"this (violence) is not something Mahatma Gandhi would approve of."

His remarks were made in Gujarat, his home state , which votes soon, and a day after people across the country protested against mob attacks.

A group of about 20 men accused the man, named Junaid Khan with his brother and two cousins, of carrying beef in their bags and yelled religious slurs at them before they beat Junaid Khan and stabbed him to death. He was thrown off the train.

The PM has been targeted by critics for not condemning the growing list of attacks by self-declared cow vigilantes, many of them in states governed by his party, the BJP.

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