Diwali to be illuminated with lamps made from cow dung; unanimous demand raised to grant ‘Rashtra Mata’ status to the cow
Lucknow, November 2026: A significant meeting of injured cow protection volunteers was successfully held today at the Lucknow Commerce Academy in Rajajipuram, Lucknow. During the meeting, participants resolved to undertake the widespread distribution of lamps made from the sacred dung of cows this Diwali.
Injured cow protection volunteer Rajesh Kumar Srivastava said, “One lamp = One cow’s life saved.” He emphasised that adopting products made from cow dung could help protect elderly cows from being sent to slaughterhouses.
The highlight of the programme was the unanimous appeal by all cow devotees present to grant the cow the status of ‘Rashtra Mata’ (Mother of the Nation).
Prominent Participants
Those present at the meeting included Neha Banerjee, Founder of Fairy Tales Foundation; Sandeep Dubey, Founder of Shri Ram Gaushala; S.P. Srivastava; educationist and social worker Shweta Srivastava; Suresh Yagyamani; Dr. S.K. Shukla; Lalit Prakash Pandey; Gyan Srivastava; social worker Gyaneshwar Srivastava from Monarch City; Gyan Chand; Ashish from City International School; mathematics educationist and national poet Saurabh Awasthi; Avnish Dubey; Sarvesh; Mehndi Ratta; engineer Prateek Dubey; Vikram Pratap; Chandreshwar; Lalit Kishore Vaishya; Vimal Saxena; and Vinay Pathak, along with several other cow devotees.
