Eat what ever your want said the Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu today. In fact he served chicken tikka and fish tikka to some media men who met him at his house in Hyderabad. When asked about the Kerala comments on beef he said, that if there is any ban that has to be followed. One has to follow the rules of the land he explained. Other wise one can eat what he likes Venkaiah stated.
But as far as the food is concerned an individual has got every right to eat what ever he wants he said.
On the other hand educationally and economically backward people can have reservations but he is opposed to the reservations on religious basis. This he was hinting at the Telangana CM KCR who is for 12 percent reservations to Muslims.
A BJP leader in Kerala who is running for parliament attempted today to dismount a controversy centred on his stand on whether beef should be banned.
N Sreeprakash told , “I am against cow slaughter but people can eat any kind of meat.” Over the weekend, he was quoted promising the voters of Mallapuram in North Kerala that he would ensure quality beef and well-run slaughterhouses, a statement seen as incongruous with the BJP’s crackdown on slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh and other states that are governed by the party like Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand.
Mallapuram votes on the 12th for its Lok Sabha member, an election necessitated by the death of E Ahmad last month, who represented the constituency in parliament. Muslims form nearly 65% of the population here. Cow slaughter is not banned in Kerala, and cow and buffalo meet are a common part of diets -and described as a cultural food practice – in many parts of the state.
Yesterday, the BJP in Kerala said that Mr Sreeprakash’s comments were not problematic. “As long as Kerala does not have a beef ban, the BJP state unit is not against its consumption,” the party’s Kerala General Secretary MT Ramesh told news agency . “The issue comes into play when there is a ban. Currently, there is no ban and hence nothing against the law.”
