Politics
Beef Only For NE : When ‘Non-Veg’ Politics Defines Law of The Land
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ews that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has no intentions of trying to ban beef if elected to power in the states of Northeast India has been met with silence and shrugs from the party’s supporters and accusations of hypocrisy from the opposition. We’ve seen the prequel to this movie before. ALL RIGHTS
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Let’s take some help from our friend Google to refresh our memories of May 2015 – a time when the country was being roiled by ‘non-veg’ politics. Television and Twitter were incandescent with outrage over Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi’s “those who cannot survive without eating beef should go to Pakistan” remark.