New Delhi, Nov. 7 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey on Saturday, in a scathing attack on the Congress party, said that the Nehru-Gandhi family has always regarded Hindus as second-class citizens. He was mainly referring to the 1966 anti-cow slaughter agitation outside Parliament.

In a post on X as part of his ongoing "Congress's Dark Chapter" series, Dubey alleged that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi used brute state force to suppress peaceful sadhus protesting for a nationwide ban on cow slaughter.

He noted that saint Karpatri Maharaj, along with Bharatiya Jana Sangh MP Rameshwaranand, met with Indira Gandhi in 1966, proposing a ban on cow slaughter, but the former Prime Minister refused to impose it.

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