The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the other right wing forces are trying to control people’s food habit and decide whether anyone will consume beef or not, Communist Party of India-Marxist State secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra said on Saturday.
Referring to the Dadri lynching case, Dr. Mishra alleged that these right wing forces are now demanding that DNA tests of meats in the market be conducted to determine whether it is beef.
“Now they (Right wing forces) will decide what will you eat and what will you keep in keep in your refrigerator,” said Dr. Mishra. He was addressing the gathering on the occasion of the 96th anniversary of the foundation of the undivided Communist Party of India (CPI).
In September a Muslim man was lynched by a mob in Bisada village near Dadri in Uttar Pradesh following rumours that he was consuming and storing beef. Dr. Misra also took a dig at Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, without naming him, for his recent remark that Muslims can live in this country but they have to stop eating beef as cow is an article of faith. “Some (BJP) leaders are asking those who eat beef to leave the country,” said Dr. Mishra. Accusing the BJP and the Sangh Parivar of being hand-in-gloves in creating “communal divide” in the country, Dr. Mishra said that the BJP government including Prime Minisrter Narendra Modi is “controlled” by the RSS.
As for the recent murder of rationalists, Dr. Mishra, in an apparent reference to the Right wing forces, said: “Rationalists such as M.M. Kalburgi and Narendra Dabholkar did not belong to Islam.”
At a time when dangers of communalism is threatening the country, the State is facing the challenge of attacks on democracy, he said, adding that the only way to end this reign of terror is to oust this government.
