MUMBAI:  Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand has said that a cow should have been taken into the new Parliament building at Central Vista during its inauguration.

“If a statue of a cow can enter Parliament, why can’t a living cow be taken inside?” he asked reporters on Sunday.

The seer said the Sengol held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi while entering the new Parliament building showed a cow engraved on the sceptre.