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BJP makes a pitch for cow dung products:
[India News]: New Delhi, Feb.26 : Guess what the BJP is doing in its lean days? Selling cow-based shampoos, oils and detergents. These now vie for space with pictures of the party's former poster boys A B Vajpayee and L K Advani at the stall at the party headquarters on 11 Ashoka Road. The stall, which usually sells photographs of party stalwarts besides books and pamphlets, has begun stocking shampoos, oils and detergents, all made from cow products like milk, butter, cowdung and cow urine. These are all from the Kanpur Goshala and have been an instant hit. Detergents and soaps have already gone out of stock, just a week after sales opened.

The range includes 'go-mootra'-based phenyl (Rs 20) that claims to kill mosquitoes, cockroaches and other pests; there is Mukta, a cowdung-based dish-cleaner for Rs 10; a panchgavya sandal soap for Rs 12; a Goratna aftershave for Rs 20, made from five cow products (urine, dung, milk, butter and ghee); Nikhar face-cream for Rs 25; and Shubhra Neel (indigo) for Rs 10. The detergent was not available and only a couple of packets of the ash-coloured vessel cleaner were left.

The brain behind the promotion of these products is Prakriti Bharati - an NGO supported by the RSS. "We are selling them here as we already have a counter and the public has easy access. It's definitely not part of any party strategy to promote cow products," said party secretary Shyam Jaju.

Media officer Sidharth Singh is more forthcoming. "The party has always been a strong believer in swadeshi. And if our workers are promoting the village industry and cow products from a goshala, why not?" he asks.

Prakriti Bharati's spokesman in Delhi is Virendra Singh Chehal, secretary to party spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. "Bharati has nothing to do with BJP or RSS. We would love to sell our goods at the AICC office if they let us," he says. "What has the cow's economic and scientific value got to do with parties?"

Naqvi adds it's a "good thing if swadeshi is promoted. Sister organisations are involved and some party workers are also in it. So, it has been allowed." (ANI)

Typical Uses for Cowdung
1. Fuel - cow dung patties (gootte) for cooking
2. Fertilizer - composting makes it even more powerful
3. Heat source - cow dung is naturally hot -compost makes hotter put in glass house to heat glass house or run pipes thru it to get hot water.
3. Purifier - natural antiseptic qualities
4. Floor coating - used mixed with mud and water on floors in mud houses. Improves water absorption of mud. Prevents muddy puddles resulting from spilt water.
5. Mud brick additive - improves resistance to disintegration
6. Skin tonic - mixed with crushed neem leaves smeared on skin - good for boils and heat rash (SP used it for heat rash in Mayapur.)
7. Smoke producer - smoldering cow patties keep away mosquitoes. Can also make smoked paneer over such smoke. Tastes great in pasta!
8. Pot cleaner - used dry absorbs oil and fat wet as a general cleaner
9. Brass polisher - tamarind removes oxidation - wet ashes polishes
10. Fertilizer - alkaline - cow dung ash is basically lime with a few other mineral mixed in
11. Mud additive - dries up slippery mud puddles
12. Mud brick additive - mud and lime (cow dung ashes) becomes like cement
13. Pond PH balancer - thrown into pond neutralizes acid.
14. Tooth polish -
15. Sun-dried organic recreational-aerodynamic-device -cow patty Frisbees ;)
16. Fan for fire - large cow patties can be used as make shift fans.
17. Deity worship - ingredient in panca gavya
18. Hair gel - keeps a long lasting hold on thin, medium, and thick hair
19. Creme filling for Goetze Caramel Cremes


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