NEW DELHI: AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi has a way with words.
Here he is today, about the BJP and it’s cow protection agenda: “BJP’s hypocrisy is that in Uttar Pradesh cow is mummy but in the Northeast it’s yummy.”
Owaisi was talking about recent stringent cow protection moves in the BJP-ruled states of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh (UP) and the dilemma it may face in beef-eating, Christian Manipur, where it recently cobbled together a majority in the Assembly elections.
In UP, the new Adityanath government has come down heavily on illegal slaughterhouses, although critics say the chief minister’s targets are meat-sellers in general and by extension the Muslim community.
Gujarat yesterday passed a bill that could jail a person for 14 years for “cow slaughter.”
“We have equalled killing of a cow or cow progeny with killing of a human being,” a Gujarat minister said.
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