In poll-bound Meghalaya, the BJP said that the Centre has not put any blanket ban on cow slaughter.
According to a report by The Times of India, BJP’s state vice-president in Meghalaya, JA Lyngdoh, said the rules don’t, at any point, ban cow slaughter. Refuting Congress’s claims upon the subject, he said the central government’s May notification on cattle slaughter “only regulates” animal markets.
Lyngdoh told The Times of India:
Though the rules do not say it, the justification for them can perhaps be traced to the direction of the Supreme Court, which passed an order to frame guidelines to prevent animals from being smuggled out of India for the Gadhimai Festival held in Nepal.