The beef
ban has become one big case of political posturing – deity worshiping – non
vegetarian atrocity that has taken not one but two countries by storm. Sorry,
three, you’ve got to count Nepal too.
The latest
controversy in this cow murdering tale of dark comedy is Kiren Rjiju, Minister
of State for home Affairs taking a pot shot at fellow Union Minister of State
for Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abaas Naqvi, for a comment that went basically
like, “Want beef? Go to Pakistan. It’s awesome there!”
Now one
might easily be confused as to whether the Naqvi is an Indian Minister in the
Union government or the Minister of Tourism for Pakistan but the Indian Secretariat
website calmly assures us that the Pakistan tourism thing is just a side job
that’s totally legal because hey, why not?
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| I'm delicious & you know it! Image Courtesy: says.com |
Now Rijiju
said that we shouldn’t be touchy about people’s food habits and when the PM
(and I’m just guessing here) called and reminded him that he was also part of
the government, Rijiju promptly blamed the media for misquoting him because
that’s the most plausible answer given the circumstances.
Well, he
then said that what he meant was actually not what he said and what he said was not
what the media interpreted correctly but now what he was saying was not what he
said earlier but something different to the effect that the Hindu religious
population was a majority in some places and a minority in other places and
that Arunachal Pradesh was better at cooking beef than Pakistan.
Got all
that? Good. (Hahaha, I didn’t either)
So
basically, by his logic, if all the Hindus in all the states got together to
ban beef, the whole country would have cows jamming traffic in the middle of
busy intersections? Damn.
Note: I'm not trying to hurt anyone's religious feelings but in case you're hurt, don't say the title didn't warn you.
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