BJP MP Maneka Gandhi accuses ISKCON of selling cows to butchers, calls group ‘biggest cheater’

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is the “biggest cheater” in India as it sells its cows to butchers, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Maneka Gandhi said in a video that went viral on social media on Tuesday.

ISKCON is based on an ancient monotheistic strain of Hinduism and whose followers worship the Hindu deity Krishna.

In the video, Gandhi, a former Union minister and an animal rights activist, recalled her visit to ISKCON’s cowshed in Anantapur city of Andhra Pradesh. “There was no dry cow in the entire dairy,” she declared. “Not a single calf was there. It means all were sold.”