Udupi: Paryaya Sri Pejawar Mutt seer Sri Vishwesha Theertha Swami has urged authorities to take measures to conserve cattle following the Constitutional statutes introduced By Dr B R Ambedkar.

The seer was speaking after inaugurating the day-long hunger strike under the campaign to save cattle organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in association with Hindu Jagaran Vedike, Bajrang Dal, Go Pariwar and Go Shalegala Karnataka Rajya Okkuta.

The Paryaya Swami questioned the people who uphold the ideologies of Ambedkar and repeatedly mention his name seeking social justice but are blind towards the Constitutional statutes proposed by Ambedkar to protect cattle.

“There is no communal disharmony hidden in the issue of conserving the cattle. Everyone should join hands keeping in mind the fact that preserving cattle stock is not the issue of religious disharmony, instead it is the essence of humanity. Everyone, irrespective of religion and caste, consume milk. Hence it is the foremost duty of each one to protect cattle,” he called.

Pejawar Mutt junior pontiff Sri Vishwaprasanna Theertha Swami said that goshalas should be set up everywhere to rear cattle as, in most of the cases, the people are unable to take care of their own aged parents. Goshalas can be promoted in temples and mutts. Wastes from vegetable shops, temples and grass grown on barren land can be used to feed cattle, he suggested.

Sri Anegundi Samsthana seer Sri Kalahasthendrasaraswati Swami said the rich, instead of adopting dogs as their pets, should go for cattle. The public signed a memorandum on the occasion appealing for the support of the state and the Central governments to conserve cattle.