“ISKCON Sells Cows to Butchers, Is Biggest Cheat,” Alleges Maneka Gandhi

New Delhi: The BJP MP and animal rights activist, Maneka Gandhi alleged that the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is the “biggest cheat” in the country as it sells cows from its gaushalas (cowsheds) to butchers.

The ISKCON rejected her allegations as “unsubstantiated and false”.

Former Union Minister, Maneka Gandhi, is a video clip viral on social media said, “ISKCON is the biggest cheat in the country. It maintains gaushalas and get benefits from the government, including vast lands.”

“ISKCON is selling all its cows to the butchers. No one else does this as much they do. And they go on and sing ‘Hare Ram Hare Krishna’ on the roads. Then they say their entire life is dependent on milk. Probably, no one has sold as many cattle to the butchers as they did,” she alleged in the video clip.

Rejecting the allegations, ISKCON’s national spokesperson Yudhistir Govinda Das said, “The cows and bulls are served for their life not sold to butchers as alleged.”

The ISKCON was in another controversy some months back after one of its monks criticized Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramahansa. The religious body promptly “banned” the concerned monk Amogh Lila Das and sent him for atonement after his comments triggered a big controversy.