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| On 25 September 1966, Sarvadaliya Goraksha Maha-Abhiyan Samiti (SGMS) was founded and headed by [[Prabhudutt Brahmachari]]. The group of SGMS contained members of the [[Vishwa Hindu Parishad|VHP]] including [[Golwalkar]], Congressmen including [[Seth Govind Das]], representatives of Bharat Sadhu Samaj, [[Arya Samaj]] represented by Ram Gopal Shalwale, [[Hindu Mahasabha]] represented by [[Digvijaynath]] and [[Ram Rajya Parishad]] represented by [[Swami Karpatri]] and Shankaracharya of Puri. This organization demanded nation-wide ban on cow slaughter.<ref>{{cite book | author = Christophe Jaffrelot | name-list-style = amp | publisher = Penguin Books India | title= The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics 1925 to the 1990s : Strategies of Identity-building, Implantation and Mobilisation | year=1999|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=iVsfVOTUnYEC| page = 206 | isbn = 978-0-14-024602-5 }}</ref> | On 25 September 1966, Sarvadaliya Goraksha Maha-Abhiyan Samiti (SGMS) was founded and headed by [[Prabhudutt Brahmachari]]. The group of SGMS contained members of the [[Vishwa Hindu Parishad|VHP]] including [[Golwalkar]], Congressmen including [[Seth Govind Das]], representatives of Bharat Sadhu Samaj, [[Arya Samaj]] represented by Ram Gopal Shalwale, [[Hindu Mahasabha]] represented by [[Digvijaynath]] and [[Ram Rajya Parishad]] represented by [[Swami Karpatri]] and Shankaracharya of Puri. This organization demanded nation-wide ban on cow slaughter.<ref>{{cite book | author = Christophe Jaffrelot | name-list-style = amp | publisher = Penguin Books India | title= The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics 1925 to the 1990s : Strategies of Identity-building, Implantation and Mobilisation | year=1999|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=iVsfVOTUnYEC| page = 206 | isbn = 978-0-14-024602-5 }}</ref> |
| In 1966 , a major [[1966 anti-cow slaughter riot|riot]] took place. On 7 November 1966, a crowd of nearly 125,000 people , predominantly from the [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh|Bharatiya Jan Sangh]] and organizers of SGMS including [[Hindu Mahasabha]], and [[Arya Samaj]], had assembled from far-off places at an open space near the Parliamentary Complex.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/archives/article16183780.ece|title=(dated November 8, 1966)|date=8 November 2016|work=The Hindu|access-date=23 December 2019|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>. A vast majority of them were ash-smeared, trident-wielding, mostly [[Aghori|Aghori Sadhus]]. The sadhus had led the crowd from [[Red Fort]] to [[Parliament of India|Parliament]] as part of a nationwide agitation to ban cow slaughter on national level. At around 1.25 pm, the demonstration took a violent turn after a “highly inflammatory speech” by the Jana Sangh MP from [[Karnal]], Swami Rameshwaranand, who had been suspended from the Lok Sabha for unruly behaviour. Incited by his call to surround the parliament, the crowd rushed to break the police cordon, hurling stones. Wielding trishuls, swords, and spears, they tried to breach Parliament. When repelled by police, they attacked the homes of Congress politicians and went on a rampage across the city, destroying property. The violence ended with eight dead, 40 seriously injured, and eight hundred arrests<ref>{{Cite web|last=Marvel|first=Ishan|date=2016-09-07|title=Fifty Years Ago, Hindutva Groups Led the First Attack on the Indian Parliament|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/hindutva-groups-first-attack-indian-parliament-50-years}}</ref><ref name="BSS"/>.The following day 500 leaders of the BJS, the RSS, the Arya Samaj and | In 1966 , a major [[1966 anti-cow slaughter riot|riot]] took place. On 7 November 1966, a crowd of nearly 125,000 people , predominantly from the [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh|Bharatiya Jan Sangh]] and organizers of SGMS including [[Hindu Mahasabha]], and [[Arya Samaj]], had assembled from far-off places at an open space near the Parliamentary Complex<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/archives/article16183780.ece|title=(dated November 8, 1966)|date=8 November 2016|work=The Hindu|access-date=23 December 2019|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>. A vast majority of them were ash-smeared, trident-wielding, mostly [[Aghori|Aghori Sadhus]]. The sadhus had led the crowd from [[Red Fort]] to [[Parliament of India|Parliament]] as part of a nationwide agitation to ban cow slaughter on national level. At around 1.25 pm, the demonstration took a violent turn after a “highly inflammatory speech” by the Jana Sangh MP from [[Karnal]], Swami Rameshwaranand, who had been suspended from the Lok Sabha for unruly behaviour. Incited by his call to surround the parliament, the crowd rushed to break the police cordon, hurling stones. Wielding trishuls, swords, and spears, they tried to breach Parliament. When repelled by police, they attacked the homes of Congress politicians and went on a rampage across the city, destroying property. The violence ended with eight dead, 40 seriously injured, and eight hundred arrests<ref>{{Cite web|last=Marvel|first=Ishan|date=2016-09-07|title=Fifty Years Ago, Hindutva Groups Led the First Attack on the Indian Parliament|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/hindutva-groups-first-attack-indian-parliament-50-years}}</ref><ref name="BSS"/>.The following day 500 leaders of the BJS, the RSS, the Arya Samaj and |
| the All-India Cow Protection League were taken into custody, and [[Indira Gandhi]] demanded and received the resignation of her Home Minister, Gulzarilal Nanda, who had been exposed as a closet ally of the cow-lobby and patron of Bharat Sadhu Samaj. Nanda resigned as Home Minister and was succeeded by [[Yashwantrao Chavan]]<ref name=":15">{{Cite journal|last=Copland|first=Ian|date=April 2014|title=History in Flux: Indira Gandhi and the 'Great All-Party Campaign' for the Protection of the Cow, 1966–8|journal=[[Journal of Contemporary History]]|volume=49|issue=2|pages=410–439|doi=10.1177/0022009413515535|issn=0022-0094|jstor=43697306|s2cid=154959158}}</ref>. | the All-India Cow Protection League were taken into custody, and [[Indira Gandhi]] demanded and received the resignation of her Home Minister, Gulzarilal Nanda, who had been exposed as a closet ally of the cow-lobby and patron of Bharat Sadhu Samaj. Nanda resigned as Home Minister and was succeeded by [[Yashwantrao Chavan]]<ref name=":15">{{Cite journal|last=Copland|first=Ian|date=April 2014|title=History in Flux: Indira Gandhi and the 'Great All-Party Campaign' for the Protection of the Cow, 1966–8|journal=[[Journal of Contemporary History]]|volume=49|issue=2|pages=410–439|doi=10.1177/0022009413515535|issn=0022-0094|jstor=43697306|s2cid=154959158}}</ref>. |
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