[Marxistindia] Cattle Sale Ban Notification: Cover for Communal Agenda

[news from the cpi(m)]

May 27, 2017

Press Statement

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

The notification of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate
Change that bans sale of cattle for slaughter is an atrocious attempt by
the Modi government to give legal cover for its wholly communal and
divisive agenda to impose a diet code on the country.

It will destroy the livelihood of crores of farmers involved in animal
husbandry, eliminate traditional cattle fairs, put an unfair burden on
farmers to care for useless cattle. This further burdens the farmers who
are increasingly resorting to distress suicides due to escalating input
costs.   It will also impact on the leather industry and the meat export
industry affecting the livelihood of lakhs of people.

The notification is also an encroachment on the rights of the states under
whose jurisdiction such issues fall.

The CPI(M) strongly condemns and opposes the notification and demands its
withdrawal.





(Hari Singh Kang)
For Central Committee Office