Meat Ban: Now Bengaluru civic body prohibits meat on Ganesha Chaturthi

Meat Ban: Now Bengaluru civic body prohibits meat on Ganesha Chaturthi

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Congress-Janata Dal (Secular)- restricted city civic body BBMP has become the latest civic body to prohibit sale of meat within its limits on the day of Ganesha Chaturthi on September 17.

The Joint Director (Animal Husbandry) has banned slaughtering of animals and sale of meat in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) limitations on September 17, 2015 on account of Ganesha Chaturthi, BBMP said in a release today.

Asked regarding the ban, BBMP Commissioner G Kumar Naik said “it is a routine matter practiced on account of festivities.” Your decision by BBMP in Congress-ruled Karnataka comes amidst the raging row over meat ban in several BJP-ruled states, including neighbouring Maharashtra.

Food and Civil Supplies Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao distanced the government in the selection banning sale of meat.

“BBMP has taken the decision, it is a routine thing. Government has not taken any such decision,” he said.