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Cattle slaughter ban up to state governments: Shah
Panaji, May 28
It was up to the respective
state BJP governments to decide on banning cattle slaughter, after
taking into account the sentiments of the local population, party
president Amit Shah said on Thursday.
Shah clarified that the
comments made by union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar
Abbas Naqvi, asking beef eaters to go to Pakistan, were made in a
personal capacity, but also spelled out the Bharatiya Janata Party's
stand on banning beef.
"We said wherever there are BJP
governments, we will try to ban cattle slaughter, only after taking
public sentiment into account," the BJP chief said at a press conference
here held on the completion of one year of the Narendra Modi
government.
Asked about taunts by the Shiv Sena about alleged
U-turns by the BJP on granting statehood to Maharashtra's Vidarbha
region, Shah said: "We have never had a stand for Vidarbha. It was a
demand, some people are supporting it, some are opposing it."
On
the Ram Mandir issue, Shah said it could be resolved either by court,
where the case was pending, or by forming consensus among the
stakeholders.
"Whichever happens earlier, it should be built," Shah said.