Hindus stop eating goat's meat (sic)," Bose tweeted.In response, Tathagata Roy said, "Neither Gandhiji nor your grandfather ever said goats were Mata-that's your conclusion. Gandhi protector of Hindus treated goats as Mata by consuming goats milk. If the goat is not a sacred animal then why was it used during worship of Kali. We Hindus regard the cow as our mother, not the goat. Nor did Gandhiji (or anyone else) ever proclaim that he was the protector of Hindus..