BYJM activists protest against Kerala calf slaughter

New Delhi: Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activists on Tuesday held a protest outside Congress headquarters on Akbar Road in New Delhi and demanded an apology from party chief Sonia Gandhi over the slaughter of a calf by its youth wing workers in Kerala.

The activists of the BJP youth wing gathered near Taj Mansingh Hotel and worshipped a calf. Later they marched towards Congress headquarters.

The police tried to stop them near Kapurthala House but the workers broke the police barricade. They continued to march towards Akbar Road where heavy police force stopped them at another barricade by using water cannons.

The protesters raised slogans demanding arrest of Kerala Youth Congress leaders involved in slaughtering of the calf and burnt effigies of Sonia and party vice president Rahul Gandhi.

"This issue is connected with emotions of all Indians. Our protest is not for a political cause, it is for a social objective and we hope that Congress leadership will take stern action against their Kerala office bearers involved in this shameless act," said BJYM Delhi unit president Sunil Yadav.

The "shameful" incident in Kerala was an outcome of "competition between the Congress and the CPM to please the minorities", Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari told reporters.

"Even as the CPM cadre have been regularly targeting and attacking RSS and BJP workers, the Congress workers by slaughtering a cow have tried to carve out a minority votebank for themselves," he claimed.

The Congress has suspended three of its youth wing members who were involved in public butchering of the calf in Kerala's Kannur on Sunday.

The police has also registered a case in connection with the incident that was termed as "barbaric and completely unacceptable" by the Congress vice president.