Ministers Narottam Mishra (household), Prem Singh Patel (animal husbandry), Mahendra Singh Sisodiya (panchayat), Kunwar Vijay Shah (forest) and Kamal Patel (income and agriculture) will be part of this administrative structure.
The group’s first meeting is scheduled for Gopashtami on November 22 at a cow sanctuary in Agar Malwa, 210 kilometers from Bhopal, CM Chouhan tweeted.
“The BJP is the guardian of Indian culture. It believes that there are three forms of satisfaction: Gita, Ganga and Gaumata. That inspired the decision to form a ‘gau cabinet’. The BJP government under Shivraj Singh Chouhan has set an example to the country, “Interior Minister Mishra said.
The cow is an important and revered animal for many. But one wonders the administrative and economic wisdom of making it a governance priority in a state that continues to perform persistently poorly on various social and economic indicators.
Agriculture and Revenue Minister Kamal Patel said BJP was doing what Congress promised but never executed. “The (old) congressional government promised to establish a thousand cow shelters, but not a single one was built. The government led by CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has begun to work not only for the protection of cows but also for their conservation ”.
The head of the PCC, Kamal Nath, dismissed it as “just another announcement.” “Before the 2018 assembly elections, Chouhan had announced the formation of a cow ministry. It had also promised cow sanctuaries and cow shelters across the state. Now he’s talking about a cow cabinet, ”Nath tweeted.
The former CM alleged that the government had done nothing to protect the cows. “On the contrary, it cut funding for forage, which the congressional government had raised to Rs 20 per cow,” said Nath. The 472 hectare cow sanctuary in Agar Malwa emerged in 2017 during Chouhan’s third term as CM at a cost of Rs 32 crore and has the capacity for more than 4,000 cows.
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