Stating that Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel’s “bulldozer will continue in the coming days”, Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghvi said on Wednesday that the state government has succeeded in bringing to justice the culprits in 16 cases of cow slaughter in the last one year. Removal of illegal encroachment of Dwarka and Somnath and solving 94 percent of temple theft cases.
Emphasizing the Gujarat government’s determination to fight against “love jihad”, cow slaughter and “land jihad”, he said, “Gujarat is the only state where the accused of cow slaughter are not only arrested but also punished. In the last one year, 16 people have been charged with cow slaughter. Convicted. Be it Kutch, Banaskantha or Amreli, we ensure that the guilty are punished so that the killers are instilled with fear.
Addressing a gathering at the foundation-laying ceremony of the reconstruction of the Dr Wanikar Memorial Building, headquarters of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Gujarat, Sanghvi said, “Bhupendra Patel’s bulldozers will certainly work in the days to come as illegal encroachments are still present in many cities. In the last two years Schools and hospitals will be built soon after illegal encroachments are removed from government land.”
He added, “Large tracts of encroached land in Dwarka and Somnath have been cleared. In Kutch alone, 2,000 acres of government land was illegally occupied for the port and used for drug trade. Similar drives were conducted in Ahmedabad, Surat and Kheda.
Highlighting the active role of the state government”love jihad“, he said that even in the absence of any complaint from the parents, the Gujarat Police had been able to retrieve “innocent girls” from Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra and reunite them with their families. “Bhupendra Patel’s baton will not spare anyone,” he said.
Regarding temple theft, he said, ‘Under the Tera Tujko Arpan campaign, 94 percent of the theft cases have been resolved in the past one year, while idols and jewelery have been returned in the presence of the trust.
Regarding the attack on Hindus in Bangladesh, VHP National President Alok Kumar said that it was a conspiracy to make the neighboring country a Hindu-free nation. Demanding a uniform civil code, he asked, ‘If there can be one tax law and one criminal law, why can’t there be one family law?
At the event, the relaunch of VHP’s monthly magazine Hindu Sandesh was announced by its editor Kaushik Mehta. Dr Wanikar Memorial Trust Secretary and VHP, Gujarat General Secretary Ashok Rawal said that the complex has become a center of Hindutva consciousness in the state.
The new building will have modern facilities like accommodation, canteen, seminar hall and meeting room. Besides, there will be provision of rain water harvesting, solar energy, natural light and air, Wi-Fi and e-library.