Slamming the ‘beef politics’ of BJP in Karnataka, Congress MLA from Belagavi North Firoz N Sait has asked the saffron party why did it not pressurize Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led union government to completely ban beef trade and export from India.
Responding to a drive by local BJP leaders to close all cold storages and slaughterhouses in Belagavi, Mr Sait said: “If the BJP is so opposed to beef trade and consumption, its leaders should convince the Centre to ban beef trade and export instead of going around snatching the livelihood of the poor working in the meat industry.”
“BJP leaders took Union Minister Maneka Gandhi to the cold storages and told her lies that they are illegal. The owners of the cold storages said all permits were obtained. If BJP leaders were concerned about such issues, they should have appealed to her to get it banned,” the MLA said.
He denied allegations by BJP leaders that he had invested in these units. “Neither I nor my family members have any investment or interest in either slaughterhouses or cold storages in Belagavi or anywhere else,” he said.
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It won't happen. Majority of the slaughter houses belong to muslims, and if it was banned, it would destroy livelihoods. That would remove whatever sympathy BJP gets from the muslim community, and could be a disaster in elections. Hence, they do things so as to keep the issue alive, that way they try to please both communities.
Well asked true question,
for them truth will not digest
sure
one day Truth will prevail and evil will perish
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