Ahead of the Assembly elections, Gujarat faces a unique problem as hundreds of cows are seen either blocking traffic on highways or cow herds entering government buildings and blocking vehicle movements in cities.
The reason being over 200 cow shelter homes run by charitable trusts have set free the animals in protest against the lack of promised government aid.
As a result, videos of cows walking through government buildings or creating traffic snarls on national highways have gone viral on social media platforms, creating a major embarrassment for the ruling party, which has recently scrapped in the Assembly a cattle control Bill that was supposed to deal with the menace of stray animals in the cities.
