Stray cows menacing crops add to woes of PM Modi who's trying hard to recover support among millions of India's farmers ahead of elections
In 2015, the last year for which government figures are available, more than 550 people were killed in accidents involving stray cattle.
"They are playing their politics, they don't care about poor farmers," he said ahead of elections beginning on April 11, when Modi will run for a second term. They also warn that the BJP has emboldened fringe Hindu vigilante groups to attack minority Muslims and low-caste Dalits with impunity for eating beef, slaughtering and trading in cattle.
The number of strays was put at 5.2 million in a 2012 livestock census – which is carried out every 10 years, just as for people – but the numbers are believed to have shot up since. "There are not enough cow shelters and the ones that are there they are so overcrowded that each day one animal dies," he told"We are Hindus, we don't want to hurt the cow but we can't afford to keep and feed so many strays when we are struggling ourselves to make ends meet."
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