At a glitzy event in Delhi last August, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped a bombshell. In fact, Modi’s warning doesn’t seem to have affected cow vigilantes at all. Does India really need marauding cow vigilantes to check a trade that is manned mostly by the impoverished backwards, Muslims and Dalits? — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 6, 2016By evening, a Muslim man had been lynched in Jharkhand for allegedly carrying beef. One hopes that the prime minister doesn’t need to repeat himself this time next year.

Source: Hindustan Times June 30, 2017 06:11 UTC