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Beef-Muslim remark: No BJP support for Khattar
Posted On Oct 17 2015
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His comments, which are bound to trigger a controversy, were made during an interview to The Indian Express.
Again, in a display of his generosity, Khattar acknowledged that attacking and killing someone is wrong, but said that the mob was faced with feelings similar to that of a man seeing his mother killed or sister molested. “Eating beef hurts the sentiments of another community, even constitutionally you can not do this”, Khattar said while responding to a question that preventing people from eating food of their choice was an infringement of their constitutional right.
Villagers in northern India beat a Muslim man to death for attempting to smuggle cattle for slaughter, police said on Friday (Oct 16), the latest victim of soaring religious tensions in a country where the majority consider cows sacred. However, Mr. Kejriwal anticipated a victory for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and claimed that the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was all set to “badly” lose the elections.
“My words have been distorted”.
Meanwhile, former Samajwadi Party leader Kamal Farooqui lashed out at Khattar saying that he must not threaten any community.
Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister of Haryana state, said the cow “is an article of faith” in India. “It appears that the statement that the Chief Minister made was on the behest of RSS”, said Chautala. “The cow is an article of faith here”, Mr Khattar told The Indian Express newspaper.
“Khattar has himself given a clarification”.
The parliamentary affairs minister also denied that intolerance was increasing in the country and said that such incidents have been taking place in the past too. “Haryana CM’s statement is highly unconstitutional. They have not done their responsibility”, he said.
Several other Congress leaders took to twitter to attack Khattar.
“Rather than making such statements, the Chief Minister should focus more on the state’s development. Divisive politics at (its) worst”, Hooda said on the micro-blogging site.
