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Beef ban way to deflect attention from core issues: Congress
New Delhi, April 7
The Congress on Tuesday
attacked the BJP and its government in Maharashtra for deflecting
attention from their "malgovernance" by raking up issues like the recent
ban on beef in the state.
Refraining to comment on the ban as
the matter was before the courts, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh
Surjewala said: "We would not like to comment on an ongoing proceeding
between a judge and the advocate general (of Maharashtra). However, we
request BJP to stop drawing attention away from the core issue of
governance and its malgovernance."
The BJP government in Maharashtra on Monday justified its ban on slaughter of cows.
Surjewala
said such a ban was first implemented in 1976, and was subsequently
introduced by other states "based on their sensibilities and
sensitivities".