Srinagar: Welcoming the beef festival organized in Kerala by various organisations to protest against Narendra Modi led NDA government’s ban on sale of cattle for slaughtering, member legislative assembly Er Rasheed on Sunday asked the J&K Government “why should it waste further time in revoking the draconian law of ban on eating beef in J&K”.
Rasheed is a two-time lawmaker representing Langate constituency in J&K assembly.
In a statement issued this evening, Rasheed said, “while in many states in Indian where Muslims are in huge minority, there exists no ban on beef nor could ever Sangh Parivaar dare to impose ban on beef in states like Kerala and north-east.
“There can be no bigger shame than the fact that in a huge Muslim dominated state of J&K there is a ban on eating beef, but an assembly having two third members belonging to Muslim community cannot even discuss the revoking the ban on beef.”
“How the bill seeking revoking of the ban on beef was thrown to dust bin, and not even allowed for a discussion, is ample proof to conclude what people can dare to do in Kerala and elsewhere, Kashmiris cannot even dream about, as New Delhi treats J&K as its colony and the majority community as its enemy,” he said.
The MLA Langate said that it is “strange” that a Muslim minority state like Kerala can hold beef festival and a Muslim dominated state of Jammu & Kashmir cannot discuss the issue even in assembly.
Rasheed, who worked as civil engineer before jumping in to pro-Indian politics, asked chief minister Mehbooba Mufti to take queue from the ruling government in Kerala which defied Modi government’s orders violating fundamental rights of citizens, or “she must confess that nothing is in her hands and she will compromise the religious rights of majority community in J&K to continue enjoying power”.
Meanwhile, the lawmaker asked J&K police administration to reveal the identity of two unknown persons killed in Uri area by army claiming that they were “militants”.
A newspaper report on Sunday said that two persons who were brought for burial to Gantamulla in Baramulla on Saturday were aged. Army had claimed that it killed two suspected militants in Uri on Thursday night.
“Not only the killed were much elderly aged persons but burying them in the darkness of the night has given rise to some vital questions which need to be answered,” he observed.
