Banning cow slaughter- not achievement but an agenda of BJP

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Mar 23: B Janardhan Poojary, the former minister, said in a press meet held at the District Congress office in Mangalore, on March 22, Monday, that the BJP government has gone against the Supreme Court ruling in passing the anti cow slaughter bill. He further informed that BJP had made three attempts to impose the ban on cow slaughter earlier. This is only to please a certain section of the society. It is an agenda of the BJP and Sangh Parivar.

 

Speaking about the difficulties of keeping cows, the former minister said that only cow owners know the difficulties involved in keeping and feeding a cow.  Poor people, who cannot afford to keep cattle, sell them, he said, and demanded to know what was wrong in purchasing and using cattles for meat.

The anti cow slaughter bill will deprive a large section of the people of protein-rich food such as beef. The government is also depriving poor farmers who need sell the cows for income, he alleged. He said that the Gevernment of Karnataka must not forget that cows become old and useless and that there was nothing wrong in killing and eating an old cow before it dies. Poor farmers who sell aged cows will get around Rs 6,000 – Rs 7,000, said the minister and wanted to know if the chief minister or the government of Karnataka will provide this income to the poor farmers. He accused the chief minister of denying the rightful earning of the poor.

Ever since Mohammed Haneef’s case of 1958, the BJP has been revising the law in a number of ways and the people of Karnataka are tired of this. The people of the state are to blame for giving power to those who are unable to manage it. Poojary said that the CM must not be jubilant because his own people will one day shun him; and if the anti cow slaughter bill gets rejected, the CM will place all the blame on opposition and the Supreme Court.

Suresh Ballal, Mohamed Masood, Vijay Kumar Shetty, Vishwanath Das, and Kallige Tharnath Shetty were present during the press conference.

‘Anti-Cow Slaughter Bill is unconstitutional’

The controversial Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter And Preservation Of Cattle Bill 2010 which aims to bring about a blanket ban on slaughter of milch animals and draught cattle is unconstitutional, said former MP Janardhan Poojary.
Addressing a press meet here on Monday, he said the move of the state government has violated four earlier judgements of Supreme Court on cow slaughter. The existing Prevention Of Cow Slaughter And Cattle Preservation Act, 1964 has been repealed to get this Bill accepted in the Assembly.

He said as per the definition of cattle in the proposed Act now includes bull, bullock and buffalo. Slaughter of cattle has been made a non-bailable offence, punishable with imprisonment ranging between one and seven years, which is unconstitutional. The Bill is draconian. 

He said “the Bill should not have been allowed to table in the Assembly. The Bill is anti-farmer. Whether Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa will pay for the daily expenses of these aged cattle. The farmer is forced to keep the cattle with himself till it dies, which will be a additional burden on him.”  Poojary alleged that Chief Minister has not respected the Supreme Court’s judgement. We have given power to a person who does not value the judgement of the Supreme Court, he observed.  He feared that the Bill can be misused by people to take personal revenge. “CM will learn a lesson when the Bill is misused against him. The Bill was directly targeting minorities and Dalits,” he alleged. The Bill was nothing but an agenda of the RSS and Sangh Parivar.

He urged the Chief Minister to withdraw the draconian Bill and continue with the existing Act of 1964.  He challenged CM to issue a statement that he (CM) is ready to violate the verdicts of Supreme Court and get the Bill implemented in the State.

Will fish be banned?

Of the ten incarnation of the Lord Vishnu matsyavathara is one among them. Will the Sangh Parivar stop people from consuming fish by saying that fish is God and should not consumed by the people in future, Poojary asked.