Ranchi, July 24: Senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar on Monday said the incidents of mob lynching could stop if people stopped eating beef. His comments came days after a man was lynched on suspicion of cow smuggling in Rajasthan’s Alwar district.

“Mob lynching can’t be welcomed…if the practice of eating cow meat is stopped, many such crimes of the ‘Satan’ could be stopped,” Indresh Kumar said. The RSS leader added that the society needs the right ‘sanskar’ to deal with this problem. Emphasising that cow is considered holy in Islam and Christianity, Kumar said killing a cow is not approved anywhere.

“…it is true that not a single religion in the world approves killing of cows. Be it Christianity, which talks of ‘Holy Cow’, because Jesus was born in a cowshed; or Islam, where killing cows is banned in Mecca and Madina (cities in western Saudi Arabia); or any other religion, killing a cow is not approved anywhere,” Kumar said.

Indresh Kumar, who heads the Rashtriya Muslim Manch - a Muslim outfit affiliated to the RSS, also mentioned that many Muslim parties associated with the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case expressed their willingness to give up the diputed land in Ayodhya for construction of Ram Mandir.

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