“Cow protection and cow-based farming have been the dreams of our saints and the great personalities since centuries. The ultimate objective of the Vishwa Mangal Gau Gram Yatra is to make these dreams as the dreams of the masses and make them realistic. These dreams have to be grown in the hearts of people so that the entire society can stand with one voice to materialise them. This yatra should emerge to such an extent that there should be no need for launching any such agitation for this objective in future,” said RSS Sarkaryavah Shri Bhaiyaji Joshi. He was addressing a gathering of prominent workers of the Vishwa Mangal Gau Gram Yatra in Bhopal on June 21. The yatra will begin from Kurukshetra on November 30 and will conclude on January 17 in Nagpur. More than 200 Prant level workers participated in the three-day training camp that began on June 20.
Shri Bhaiyaji Joshi exhorted the workers to engage themselves in the yatra with a conviction. “If we are able to develop one or two lakh workers at the grassroot level through the 1,000 sub-yatras to be conducted along with the main yatra in different parts of the country, we should try to mould them as the full time workers who think only for these two issues all the time. It is necessary that full time workers for both rural development and cow protection are developed in adequate number and they should successfully give a vision to the urban people to move to the villages,” he added.
Shri Sitaram Kedilaya, Akhil Bharatiya Sewa Pramukh of the RSS, appealed to the workers to establish effective contact in each and every village of the country. “Scarcity of water, pollution, cow slaughter, etc. are the problems that equally affect all—Hindus, Muslims, Christians, etc. Therefore all people, sections and social, religious, cultural organisations of the country have to be involved in the yatra. Effective contact was established in about four lakh villages during the birth centenary year of Shri Guruji. But this time we have to establish this contact in all the villages of the country. We wish to develop an atmosphere in which no farmer is forced to commit suicide but all live with self-dependence,” he said stressing the need to present scientific solutions to the problems of farmers and the cow. “The cow will not be protected just by performing aaratis, we shall have to start cow-based farming, industries, etc, at the village level itself,” he said. He appealed to involve the women also in the movement in large number. Shri Hukumachand Sanwala, national vice president of the yatra, Shri Diwakar Shastri, general secretary, Shri Shankarlal, national secretary, Shri Meghraj Jain, national secretary and Shri Bhanwarlal Kothari, treasurer were also present at the meeting.
