Delhi BJP Makes Cow Devotion Mandatory

This latest measure, which mandates cow-related media uploads, has also been made a prerequisite for participation in the state executive committee meeting to be held on July 7 in the national capital. Failure to comply will result in their absence being officially recorded, regardless of their actual attendance. A senior party leader revealed that "Gau Sewa" (cow service) will be one of the main election planks for the Delhi BJP. Delhi is set to go to polls in February next year.

The Delhi BJP has asked its national office bearers, national council members from the city, and members of the state core group to perform “Gau Sewa” and arrange sanitation facilities at Gaushalas (shelter homes for cows) before the meeting on July 7. It is understood that the state leadership has already prepared a detailed list of tasks assigned to different levels of office bearers.

Besides their visit to Gaushalas for cow service, the senior leaders are also asked to reach out to the heads of ‘Sewa Basti’ (service colonies), discuss party expansion, and visit and provide services at orphanages, old age homes, and homes for leprosy patients.

The Delhi BJP has sent a list of tasks to be completed by its leaders before the one-day “extended state executive meeting,” and uploading videos and pictures of assigned tasks on the Saral app is mandatory. “Their attendance will be valid only after the pictures and videos of their assigned work are uploaded on the Saral app,” said a senior party leader.

A senior party leader claimed that this is the first time the Delhi BJP has issued an official instruction to perform “Gau Sewa.”
After the Lok Sabha elections, Sunday's meeting will be the first, and sources said that the BJP state executive will discuss plans for next year’s assembly polls to return to power in Delhi.

“Apart from highlighting the failures of the Arvind Kejriwal government, the party's poll plank will prominently focus on its core agenda of ‘Hindutva,’ which also includes the ‘holy cow’,” a party leader said.

State office bearers, state executive members, Members of Parliament, and MLAs are assigned to hold meetings at the booth level, felicitate ‘Panna Pramukh’ (page in-charge) and ‘Tridev’ (comprising booth president, booth in-charge, and polling agent) at their homes, and hold public hearings with civic and government officials to address people’s grievances.

The party has also instructed its candidates contesting the 2020 assembly polls and 2022 municipal polls to carry out sanitation drives and hold meetings with Mandir Committees (temple committees), market and resident welfare associations, and key voters.

District in-charges and co-incharges, Lok Sabha convenors, and assembly in-charges are asked to visit people detained under MISA during the Emergency and felicitate them.