Cow vigilante Aadesh Soni, leading a protest demanding cows be declared “mother of the state,” accused non-Hindus of occupying pastoral land and led chants including “Shoot those who kill cows,” “If you want to live in Chhattisgarh you must chant Jai Gaumata,” and “Those who interfere with mother and father (cows and bulls), we swear on our mothers, they will not be alive.”