Beef on Games menu: MCD to protest

The BJP-led Municipal Corporation of Delhi has threatened to carry out demonstrations across the city if beef is served to foreign guests and sportspersons during the Commonwealth Games.

The BJP-led Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has threatened to carry out demonstrations across the city if beef is served to foreign guests and sportspersons during the Commonwealth Games.

If the players,officers and foreign guests are served beef,BJP councillors and workers will picket and gherao the hotel as well as the offices of the Commonwealth Games Organising committees. The city will witness unprecedented unrest, said Subhash Arya,leader of the MCD House.

The councillors said they would lodge FIRs against the officials and the hotel management for serving beef. The legislative wing of the civic agency has written to Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna to intervene in the matter.

The civic body has unanimously adopted the resolution that beef should be removed from the Commonwealth Games menu. It has also recommended prohibition of import for the purpose.

We worship cows,how can we allow them to be slaughtered and served to be eaten? During 1994,the then Delhi Chief Minister Madan Lal Khurana had imposed a ban on cow slaughter,processing and sale of its meat. How can they serve beef during the CWG? asked Ram Kishan Singhal,chairman of MCDs standing committee.

The councillor said the Games Village comes under the MCD area and they will not allow beef to be served to guests or sportspersons.

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