Guwahati: The debate over the recent livestock preservation bill in Assam when the leader of Barpeta MP and Congress Abdul Khaleque, on Wednesday said that new bills if it passed can increase lynching in the state and the livestock transportation clause which will create more syndicates in the country.
The Assam government led by BJP on Monday filed a bill in the assembly which imposed restrictions on the sale of beef and the transportation of cows, sharply increased the penalty for livestock slaughter without permission and would not seem to be resolved to be slaughtered.
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“I have the fear that the provisions in the new Bill, which prohibit transportation of livestock will be able to make a new syndicate system in the state.
With a variety of restrictions with the transportation of livestock, he has tried to introduce new Raj permits that will produce large livestock syndicates in Assam,” said Khaleque at a press conference here.
Bill Conservation of Livestock Assam, 2021, prohibits the transportation of the interstate cattle intended to be slaughtered and from, and through Assam without valid documents.
Although cattle protection is a broader BJP Pet and Sangh family project throughout India, it is not part of the party’s vision document that was released before the March-April assembly poll.
Khaleque said the 5 km clause was a decisive feature of the proposed law that indirectly meant that beef could not be sold almost anywhere in Assam.
Forget about Guwahati, it will be difficult to find one location in Assam who will fulfill such strict conditions.
It clearly appeared that the bill was to reach the BJP and RSS agenda.
This provision might encourage lynching mobs and can increase communal incidents in the state, “said Congress leader.” I want to ask the minister’s chairman why the government emphasizes and gives an important meaning in Article 48, why not give the same meaning with Article 47 too? Why does the minister’s chairman not forbid alcohol too? It uses the principles of direction according to their agenda, “said MP.
According to Article 47, the State will try to bring beverage prohibitions and intoxicating drugs while Article 48 directs the country to make efforts to ban the slaughter of cattle.
Proposed legal tape sold and purchase Beef products or beef in the area “especially inhabited by Hindu, Jain, Sikh and other non-beef eating communities”, or “within a 5 km radius” of each temple or an environment (Vaishnavite monastery).