New Delhi, Sept 4: Kerala is a “beef-eating State” and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has no problem with the people eating beef there, newly appointed Tourism Minister K Alphons has said.
“Kerala is a beef-eating state. It is not going to stop eating beef. It will continue to eat beef. BJP doesn't have a problem,” he said while speaking a news channel after assuming charge of the Tourism Ministry on Monday while replying to a question on the issue.
He rejected all accusations against the BJP on the issue, dubbing them as “absolutely untrue.”
He said that the Chief Minister of Goa, which is a BJP-ruled State, has made it clear that the State would continue to eat beef.
"I am sure there is a lot of propaganda. There is no food emergency They said churches would be demolished and mosques will be burnt if the BJP comes to power but nothing like that happened, he added.
Alphons asserted that the BJP had no plans to impose a “food emergency” in any of the States including Kerala.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking everybody along. He has said 'I will take care of you all. I will protect you'," he added
Alphons also said that he would be “a bridge between Prime Minister and the Christian community,” when asked if his induction into the Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers was a move to reach out to the Christian community.
“I would be a bridge between the Prime Minister and the Christian community. The Prime Minister has talked about the development of all sections of the community," he said.
Earlier in the day, he took over the charge of Tourism Ministry in presence of the outgoing Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma. He also joined the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (IT) as Minister of State to function under Union Minister Ravishankar Prasad.
"There is a lot of potential in our tourism sector but first we will have to love ourselves and love India then we can attract tourists from other countries," he said.
Handing over the charge of the Tourism Ministry, Sharma said Prime Minister “handpicked” Alphons for the job as he had created an image of himself “as an able administrator.”
“He is like a flower that Modi has picked from a bouquet. When the tourism development rate globally is 4.7 per cent India's is 17.3 per cent. I hope next time when these statistics are issued, Alphons would have bettered this,” Sharma added.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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Hahahaha..... Anukoola Shastra.
No Problem in kerala beef is not gomatha.
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