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Touching a cow drives away negativity, claims Maha minister

Maharashtra state minister Yashomati Thakur's statement sparked a controversy when she said that touching a cow drives away negativity. She was speaking at a function in Amravati.

Maharashtra minister Yashomati Thakur
Maharashtra minister Yashomati Thakur
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Published : Jan 12, 2020, 8:39 PM IST

Mumbai: Days after she faced flak for stating that ministers in the Maharashtra government had just been sworn in and had not started making money, state minister Yashomati Thakur courted controversy again by claiming that touching a cow drives away negativity.

Thakur, MLA from Teosa and Women and Child Development Minister in the Uddhav Thackeray government, was speaking at a function in Amravati on Saturday.

"Our culture says that if you touch a cow, all negativity will go away," she told the gathering.

Earlier, campaigning for the Vashim Zilla Parishad polls, she had said, "We have just come to power, our pockets are not warm enough yet."

She had also said that voters may accept money from the opposition but must vote for the Congress.

Also Read: Maha govt to set up think-tank to improve quality of education

Mumbai: Days after she faced flak for stating that ministers in the Maharashtra government had just been sworn in and had not started making money, state minister Yashomati Thakur courted controversy again by claiming that touching a cow drives away negativity.

Thakur, MLA from Teosa and Women and Child Development Minister in the Uddhav Thackeray government, was speaking at a function in Amravati on Saturday.

"Our culture says that if you touch a cow, all negativity will go away," she told the gathering.

Earlier, campaigning for the Vashim Zilla Parishad polls, she had said, "We have just come to power, our pockets are not warm enough yet."

She had also said that voters may accept money from the opposition but must vote for the Congress.

Also Read: Maha govt to set up think-tank to improve quality of education

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Touching a cow drives away negativity, claims Maha minister
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         Mumbai, Jan 12 (PTI) Days after she faced flak for
stating that newly-sworn in ministers in the Maharashtra
government had not yet started making money, state minister
and Congress MLA Yashomati Thakur has said that touching a cow
"drives away negativity".
         On Sunday, the Women and Child Development Minister in
the Uddhav Thackeray-led government defended her remarks,
saying touching any animal, including cows, feels one with
compassion.
         "Our culture says if you touch a cow, all negativity
will go away," the Teosa MLA told a gathering in Amravati,
over 690 kms from here, on Saturday.
         She told PTI on Sunday: "Cow is a sacred animal.
Moreover, be it a cow or any other animal, touching them
brings a feeling of love to us. What is wrong in what I said?"
         Earlier, campaigning for the Vashim Zilla Parishad
polls, she had said "we have just come to power, our pockets
are not warm enough yet".
         She had also said that voters may accept money from
the Opposition but must vote for the Congress.
         The Congress is one of the constituents in the Shiv
Sena-led government, apart from the Sharad Pawar-led
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). PTI MR BNM
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