Today, after the Punjab state assembly made an obituary reference to cows, allegedly killed at a bone crushing factory, assembly staff are confused over whom to send the formal condolence message.

As per practice, condolence resolutions ad
opted in the Assembly are normally sent to the relatives of all those died. The House was taken by surprise on the opening day of the session when immediately after Speaker Charanjit Singh had read out the names of 14 eminent people, the chief minister got up from his seat and suggested that obituary references should also be paid to cows slaughtered at Joga village and declared that a memorial would be set up for the slaughtered cows, which is likely to cost 2,00,00,000 rupees of tax payers money.

This in a state which is notorious for aborting female children and also has one of the lowest girl-boy ratio at 846/1000. As per Pragati foundation, abortion rates are increasing in almost 80% of the India states, mainly in Punjab and Haryana. Comparatively, states where beef is eaten have shown much more humane tendency to the female child. The highest child sex ratio is in Mizoram (971 females against 1000 males) and Meghalaya (970). For some Indians, cow worship is more important than protecting fellow female citizens.
— with Narendra Nayak and 9 others.