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| 30.18 of Yajurveda sanctions capital punishment to those who kill cows: Panchajanya writer Vinayak Chaturvedi |
October 18, 2015, NewsCrunch
The latest cover story of RSS mouthpiece Panchajanya triggered a row after it sought to justify lynching of a Muslim man, who was accused of eating beef, by quoting vedas.
The article ‘Is Utpat ke Us paar’ (The other side of this disturbance)’ was written by Hindi writer Vinay Krishna Chaturvedi under his pen name Tufail Chaturvedi.
“For hundreds of years our ancestors have staked their lives to prevent cow slaughter and counter the killers.There are hundreds of such occasions in history when Muslim invaders thrust beef into our mouths to convert Hindus into Muslims,” it read.
Later speaking to The Sunday Express, Chaturvedi quoted passages in Vedas that sanction killing of cow killers. "30.18 of Yajurveda says ‘hand over capital punishment to those who kill cows’", he said.
Ironically, the Panchajanya controversy erupted on a day BJP when came down heavily on the extremists who have been issuing provocative statements.
BJP chief Amit Shah reportedly summoned Manohar Lal Khattar, Mahesh Sharma, Sangeet Som and Sakshi Maharaj for making controversial statements on Dadri lynching and warned them to desist from doing so in the future.
Here are a few critical responses to Panchajanya's article on beef killingon Twitter
In fact it is not stated anywhere ? I have read the Vedas many times and do not find it anywhere. Will Panchajanya enlighten me ?— Markandey Katju (@mkatju) October 18, 2015@mkatju :now wait ! Suppose wat they say bout vedas is truth . Does that justify the lynching of men? Wat about the constitution n the laws.— Malik Aabid (@Malikaabid) October 18, 2015This is precisely no person with even 1% of humanity in him will stick to RSS shakas.Glad I didn't too, No more a bhakt. vedas— Virat Bhakt (@ShantiseAshanTi) October 18, 2015@malviyamit we would have held editors responsible if Vedas were misquoted so irresponsible to justify Killing in other papers.. #hypocrisy— vipul (@vipul_kp) October 18, 2015But the guy killed in Dadri was eating mutton. And Vedas also preach to not spread hatred, falsehood and venom. http://t.co/ZZYOqh1gwr— Nitin Sinha (@NsNitinsinha) October 18, 2015This is RSS's way of telling the PM. Take ur plane & fly around the world.Don't meddle in internal affairs of the country anymore. vedas— Virat Bhakt (@ShantiseAshanTi) October 18, 2015@iam_khare if any text against individual freedom i will say get over it !! either it Vedas r so called quran !!— B.saranraj (@seratobikiba) October 18, 2015BTW, how many RSS guys have really read Vedas ? All our religious texts promotes peace and high values— Rakesh Singh (@rakesh3368) October 18, 2015Common sense orders Right Wing thugs not to talk about the Vedas.— Sunil Damodar Y (@SunilDamodar) October 18, 2015Panchajanya stated that the Vedas said that killers of cows should be killed. But where exactly is this stated in the Vedas ?— Markandey Katju (@mkatju) October 18, 2015