Northeast India

AICC Press Briefing By Randeep Singh Surjewala on Assembly elections in 5 states

The Bharatiya Janata Party has promised the voters of Meghalaya that if the party forms a government in the state then beef will not be banned.

Meghalaya BJP also termed Congress's claim that the Center has banned animals from cutting across the country.

The upcoming Assembly elections in Meghalaya will be held in the next year. Meghalaya BJP vice president JA Lyngdoh said, "The law made by the Center is not restricted to cutting cows at any level."

According to Lyngdoh, the Supreme Court has asked the Central Government to set guidelines for preventing smuggling of animals out of India.

He said that the notification issued by the Center for this purpose is to control the purchase and sale of animals.

According to J A Lyngdoh, the cutting of cows have not been banned completely.

According to the India Times dot com's Report, Lyngdoh said, "The law does not say so, if it says so, it will be declared illegal by the High Court or the Supreme Court."

Explain that the Central Government has banned the purchase of cow for cow-meat from the market in order to prohibit cow's slaughter. Within this new rule, there are other animals of the cattle, besides the cow.

Lyngdoh had opposed this rule of the Modi Government of the Central in May this year and said that "We can not accept new orders issued regarding the purchase and distribution of animals and their slaughter." We can not go against our eating habits."

According to Lyngdoh, this law of the Center has been misinterpreted. They said that eating habits of the tribes of the state will not be attacked in any condition.

Let tell that the population of Meghalaya is around 32 lakh. The majority of the population here is Christian. The two main tribes of the state are the Khasi and Garo, who eat beef. These two tribes are three-fourths of the state's population.

It was this year that a local BJP leader had said that if the BJP comes to power then the party will supply cheap beef to the people. But after the center brought the new law this BJP leader had resigned from the party.

Sikkim is getting the benefit of unrest in Darjeeling this season with highest earning money in terms of tourism, because tourists are turning to Sikkim instead of Darjeeling due to Gorkha Janmukti Morcha movement. Sikkim Tourism Secretary C. Jangpo said, "There has been a sudden spurt in the tourism industry due to tension in Darjeeling."

Due to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha movement in Darjeeling, many domestic and foreign tourists planning to go there have canceled their booking and they have planned to go to Sikkim.

Jangpo said, "There are so many customers in the tourism related establishments in Gangtok and the booking has been completed for the next several days."

Sikkim Tourism Secretary said that almost all the tourists who came to visit Sikkim were either going to Darjeeling in their second phase of the trip or before they came here they went to Darjeeling. Travel operators are concerned that managing such a large number of tourists is difficult and the secretary also expressed this kind of concern.

Jangpo said, "We have been asked to provide maximum number of the tourists without compromising service standards with travel operators and hotels, because of any kind of mismanagement in this regard can lead to the defamation of the tourism industry."

Shantanu Bose, a tourist from Kolkata, said, "We went to Darjeeling to make the holidays, but only then it became all (movement). Our travel agent immediately contacted the operators in Sikkim and we were fortunate that we got the booking. "Bose told the media here that many tourists had to return from Darjeeling due to lack of booking.

CRPF IG Rajnish Rai has been transferred to accusing the fake encounter on the Army, CRPF, SSB and Assam Police. Rai had said that in March this year, the team had killed two people in a fake encounter.

Rai has been shown the way out from the north-east with immediate effect. He was asked to join the Counter-Insurgency and Anti Terrorism (CIAT) School in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh.

Rai was posted on the post of the Northeast IG of CRPF. Rai's transfer has been done at a time when the Home Ministry has decided to investigate his allegations.

Rai claims that an encounter was done by the army, Assam Police, CRPF and Sashastra Sima Bal (SSB) in Chirang district on March 10, 2017. Rai gave this information to the headquarter in Delhi in his report.

According to him, weapons were planted on their dead bodies by killing two people for encounter, so that it was felt that the alleged terrorists attacked the security forces. Two people killed in the encounter were Lukas Norgery and David Isleri.

In the case, not only on the transfer of Rai but also on the process of questioning. On Monday, CRPF Headquarters sent a letter to its DIG in Guwahati and told that IPS officer D Prakash, who joined the force on the first day of the deputation, will reach the capital on Tuesday, and arrange accommodation and vehicle. After Prakash reached Guwahati, Rai got the transfer orders, which was the date of June 12, 2017 (Monday).

In this order it was said that Prakash was originally appointed IG (Communication and Information Revolution), but he would also take additional charge of Rai's post. Prakash's Guwahati go and Rai's transfer orders were issued on the same date.

According to Rai, they were picked up from the house of a village named D-Kaling to encroach them, they were killed in a fake encounter in Simlaguri village. Both Lukas and David were claimed to be terrorists of the organization called the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB (S)).

On the other hand, Rai has also claimed that the eyewitness linked with this case is safe in his custody. According to them, these eyewitnesses identified the dead bodies only.

The Meghalaya Congress government has taken a big step against the Centre's decision to stop the procurement of animals for slaughter and passed the resolution in the assembly against the Centre's decision. This proposal was passed on Monday (June 12th) in the special session of the Meghalaya assembly.

Explain that on May 28 this year, the Central Government has issued a notification and has banned the purchase and sale of animals in animal mandis for slaughter. This decision of the centre is being linked to beef bans and this decision is being strongly opposed in many states including Meghalaya. Against this decision of the Centre, many leaders of the Meghalaya BJP have resigned.

Explain that on Monday, during the debate on this issue, the MLAs strongly objected to this decision of the Centre and the decision of the Centre was averse to the feelings of the people of the northeast.

Among the tribals in Meghalaya, beef has been the main part of food. The northeast people are very angry about this notification of the Centre. Against this decision of the Centre, BJP leaders of Meghalaya also blasted the rebellion against the party high command and resigned from the BJP. Among those who resigned from the BJP, Bachu Marak and Bernard Marak said that the Central Government is playing with tribal Asmita.

The BJP government of the Centre is facing protests in North-east as well as in the South part of the country. This notification was also challenged in the Madras High Court, after which the Madurai Bench of the court has stayed the notification for the centre for the week.

Here the central government says that its intention is not to curb people's eating habits, but to stop the smuggling of cows and other animals, as well as to stop the torture of animals in the name of cow slaughter. Under this notification of the Center, licensed slaughterhouses will have to purchase animals directly to the farmers for the slaughter. Animal owners will not even be able to sell their animals for slaughter in the market.

The BJP, trying to make roots in the northeastern states of India, has suffered a setback. Five thousand BJP workers in the north-east Meghalaya have resigned from the party.

These BJP workers were very angry with the ban on the purchase of animals for the execution. These workers said that they can not tolerate any kind of tampering with their culture and local people's feelings.

In Meghalaya, two senior BJP leaders Bachu Marak and Bernard Marak also resigned from the BJP on this issue.

Vilvar Greham Dango, President of BJP Youth Wing of Tura district, said that it is opposed to the efforts of the NDA government, under which the government is trying to suppress the tribal and other groups who eat beef.

Vilver Greham Dango has also left the party in protest of the Centre's decision. He said that five BJP boards have been merged and more than 5000 party workers have resigned.

Dango says that we can not mess with the feelings of our own people, these people believe in us.

According to Dango, BJP is mixing religion and politics, but we can not see this happening.

On May 28, the centre's BJP government has banned the purchase and sale of animals from animals markets for slaughter. The Centre has issued notification, though the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has stayed the decision of the Centre. But the Centre has remained firm on its stand and challenging this decision in the Supreme Court. This decision of the Centre is being opposed in the northeast, Tamilnadu, Kerala and West Bengal.

The BJP leaders of Meghalaya said that any party or person who will hurt the feelings of our people is against us, we will protect our tribal land and interests.

Many other party leaders have also opposed this policy of BJP and threatened to leave the party in the event of the abrogation of this law.