{"id":74455,"date":"2017-04-01T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T08:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=74455"},"modified":"2017-04-01T13:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T08:27:39","slug":"cow-not-mummy-yummy-owaisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/cow-not-mummy-yummy-owaisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cow is not Mummy but Yummy: Owaisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MIM president and Lok Sabha member from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the issue of cow slaughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While speaking to a news agency , the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief said, \u201cBJP&#8217;s hypocrisy is that in Uttar Pradesh it considers cow as &#8216;mummy&#8217;, but in Northeast it&#8217;s yummy.\u201dHis brother Akbar also made similar kind of statement as to how he likes to eat beef and cow meet. These statements have become viral and also controversial later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Notably, cow is considered to be a sacred animal in Hindu religion and the BJP, which registered a landslide victory in the recently held Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, has long campaigned for the protection of cows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74459 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/before-pradesh-becoming-gaushala-adityanath-feeding-gorakhpur_34509094-0ee6-11e7-be49-55692bf38950.jpg\" alt=\"Cow is not Mummy but Yummy: Owaisi\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/before-pradesh-becoming-gaushala-adityanath-feeding-gorakhpur_34509094-0ee6-11e7-be49-55692bf38950.jpg 960w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/before-pradesh-becoming-gaushala-adityanath-feeding-gorakhpur_34509094-0ee6-11e7-be49-55692bf38950-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/before-pradesh-becoming-gaushala-adityanath-feeding-gorakhpur_34509094-0ee6-11e7-be49-55692bf38950-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Owaisi&#8217;s comments came in the backdrop of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launching a crackdown on illegal slaughter houses in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The LS member had earlier said the Uttar Pradesh government should give time to illegal abattoirs for regularisation instead of just recklessly sealing them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cow slaughter is not banned in northeastern states, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIM president and Lok Sabha member from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the issue of cow slaughter. While speaking to a news agency , the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief said, \u201cBJP&#8217;s hypocrisy is that in Uttar Pradesh it considers cow as &#8216;mummy&#8217;, but in Northeast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[920,12697,350,38249,38251,64,38252,38250,38253,29886,38254,38255],"class_list":["post-74455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-asaduddin-owaisi","tag-bharatiya-janata-party","tag-bjp","tag-cow-is-not-mummy-but-yummy-owaisi","tag-cow-slaughter","tag-hyderabad","tag-hypocrisy","tag-mim-president","tag-mummy","tag-news-agency","tag-northeast","tag-yummy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/owaisi-k0E-621x414@LiveMint.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}