New Delhi, June 8: The central office of the historic ‘save cow’ padayatra campaign was inaugurated at Sangat Bhavan, in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Organised by the Muslim Rashtriya Manch Gau Seva Prakoshth the yatra is named as "Gau Seva Sadbhavana Padayatra". National Convener of Gau Seva Prakoshth Mohd Faiz Khan will undertake this yatra from June 24.

Senior RSS leader and Patron of Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) Indresh Kumar, MRM National Convener Mohd Afzal and Mufti Saleem Qasmi jointly inaugurated the central office.

Asif Khan, Shahnaz Afzal, Co-convener of MRM Women’s Cell, Advocate Shiraz Qureshi, Co Convener of MRM Intellectual Cell, Khurshid Rajaka, Chairman of Mewat Development Authority and Imran Chaudhry, Mohanji Medavat from Banswara, Ganesh Bhai from Chhattisgarh, and Mahesh Sharma,

It may be mentioned that Mohd Faiz Khan, National Convener of MRM Gau Seva Prakoshth (Cow Cell) will be undertaking a historic and ambitious ‘Gau Seva Sadbhavana padayatra’ from Leh to Kanyakumari and from there to Amritsar in Punjab to generate mass awareness about cow protection, cow rearing, medicinal qualities of milk, ghee etc. among the Muslims.

The padayatra will begin on June 24, 2017 from Leh on the occasion of the ‘Sindhu Darshan Utsav’. The yatra will cover a distance of 12000 km in 600 days (1 year 7 months and 25 days) at a speed of 20 km per day.

The padayatra, to be completed in two phases will cover the states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu in the first phase from Leh to Kanyakumari.

In the second phase from Kanyakumari to Amritsar the padayatra will pass through the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, and Punjab.

 A core committee comprising Advocate Shiraz Qureshi, Navin Tuli, Yogita Bhayana, Hindu Rinkesh, Abu Talib, Hafiz Sabreen, Vashishth Goyal, Dildar Husain Beg and Sukhvinder Kaur has been formed to monitor the progress of the yatra.

Addressing the gathering after formally inaugurating the office, Indresh Kumar appealed to the people to cooperate with the Padayatra and make it a grand success to accomplish its mission of creating awareness among the common masses about the importance of cow in our daily life and economic wellbeing as well.

MRM National Convener Mohd Afzal also made a fervent appeal to the people to make the unique padayatra a successful event.