Following massive protests by cattle-rearing communities, the Gujarat Legislative Assembly on Wednesday unanimously withdrew a Bill aimed at prohibiting the movement of stray cattle on roads and public places in urban areas of the State, in a bid to pacify the communities ahead of the State polls. On Wednesday, the community members held protests by spilling milk on roads.
The Bill passed in the last Budget session in April this year was taken back after State Governor Acharya Devvrat returned the ‘Gujarat Cattle Control (Keeping and Moving) In Urban Areas Bill’ to the State government with a request to “reconsider it and make necessary amendments.”
On September 18, the cattle-rearers held a huge convention warning the State authorities that if the Bill was not withdrawn, they would launch Statewide protests and stop supplying milk to dairies.
