Cancer can be cured by cleaning, lying in cowshed: UP minister Gangwar

In a statement that challenges science and reason, Uttar Pradesh minister Sanjay Singh Gangwar has claimed that cancer patients can be cured if they lie down in a cowshed and clean the shed, and that stroking a cow’s back can lower one’s blood pressure.

The BJP leader made these statements while inaugurating the Kanha Gaushala in Nougawa Pakadiya in UP in a report by HT.

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He also said that burning cow dung cakes can keep away mosquitoes.

“If there is a blood pressure patient, there are cows here. The person should stroke a cow on its back every morning and evening and serve it. If the person is taking a 20 mg dose of blood pressure medicine, it will come down to 10 mg within 10 days,” the BJP minister told the people gathered there.

Gangwar continued, “If a cancer patient starts cleaning a cowshed and lying there, even cancer can be cured. If you burn cow dung cakes, you get relief from mosquitoes. Everything that a cow produces is useful in some way.”

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He said the problem of stray cattle in farmers’ fields arises because of lack of respect for cows.

“We are not serving our mother, so our mother is harming us somewhere,” said the minister.

Gangwar also told Muslims to prepare vermicelli (sewai) in cow’s milk on Eid.

The politician was earlier in the Bahujan Samaj Party and lost in the 2012 assembly election. He then joined the BJP and won from the Pilibhit seat in 2017. He retained his seat in the 2022 elections and became a minister.