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Senior Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi, who recently resigned as spokesperson of the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar-led party, on Wednesday slammed cow vigilantes, describing their actions as unconstitutional.e)..
Tyagi's statement came amid outrage over two incidents of cow-related vigilantism in Haryana, where JD(U) ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in power and faces an election in October..
Stating that no one should be allowed to take law into their own hands, Tyagi also recalled prime minister Narendra Modi taking a similar line years ago..
In Haryana's Faridabad, a 19-year-old student was fatally shot by cow vigilantes on the Agra-Delhi highway on August 23..
The state's ruling BJP, already facing anti-incumbency having been in power here since 2014, has come under attack from the opposition, with Congress' Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, accusing the saffron party of climbing the ladder of power by using hatred as a political weapon..
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