Activists wanted to send the carcasses by Indian postal mail to Maneka Gandhi.
In what they called a protest, members of the Kerala Youth Front (Mani) – the youth wing of the political party Kerala Congress (Mani), killed 10 stray dogs, tied them to a pole and paraded it in Kottayam district of Kerala, on Monday.
According to a report in The News Minute, the youth were protesting against the stray dog menace in the state and the approach of Union Minister Maneka Gandhi towards the issue.
“I love dogs; I have dogs in my house. Our protest was against dangerous dogs and we hope that seeing the protest in Kottayam, people across districts do the same. So many people in Kottayam have been attacked by dogs. Dog lovers are okay with any other animal getting slaughtered, why this bias only towards dogs,” Youth Front President Saji Manjakadambil told The News Minute.
The protestors took the dog carcasses to a nearby post office to send the sane to Gandhi. They left the carcasses in front of the post office with the address of Gandhi written on them as a token gesture.
Alleging that Maneka Gandhi is an agent of pharmaceutical companies, Saji Manjakadambil said her approach to the issue was suspicious.
They claimed the dogs they had beaten to death were dangerous to the public life.
“We identified dogs that were attacking people or were simply rotting in the streets,” they said.
The municipal authorities cleared the carcasses from the post office and buried it later. The police have registered a case against the protestors under section 428 and 429 of Indian Penal Code, and Section 11 of Prevention of Cruelty against animals.
The issue of stray dog menace in Kerala had made national headlines after a 65-year-old woman was mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs in Thiruvananthapuram district in August. Several incidents of dog bites have been reported in the state after the stray dog attack in Thiruvananthapuram.
While outraged people call for killing stray dogs to put an end to the menace, the government says that dogs cannot be killed considering the rules prevailing in the country.