Hyderabad may face beef ban if AIMIM doesn’t come to power: Owaisi

Hyderabad may face beef ban if AIMIM doesn’t come to power: Owaisi

PTIUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 06:42 PM IST
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New Delhi - Asaduddin Owaisi, president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen at the Parliament in New Delhi on Wednesday, 19 February 2014. (photo by ARIJIT SEN . DNA) |

Hyderabad: A ban on consumption and sale of beef may be imposed in the city if AIMIM was not voted to power in the upcoming elections to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), party chief Asaduddin Owaisi claimed on Tuesday. “I am not trying to scare you. But, the fact is if we don’t come to power, there may be a scope for ban on beef (in Hyderabad) on pretext of faith,” the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader said here.

Due to this many people, who are earlier dependent on beef trade have lost their livelihood, he said. “If someone else comes to power (in GHMC), it (beef ban) may become a reality.” It is the poor who cannot afford to eat mutton and they have to depend on beef, the MP added.

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