Raj Thackeray Tells Party Workers to Defy Meat Ban on Independence Day

Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray hit the ban on selling meat on Thursday and led party workers to challenge it. The MNS chief, aiming at the Jain community, insisted that the ban on pigeon feeding should be respected by everyone.

“One day we celebrate freedom, people are being taken to freedom. The government should not decide who should eat what,” Thackeray said on Thursday.

The words of the MNS chief came after several municipal companies in Maharashtra banned the sale of meat on the Independence Day and also warned that he would take action against violating the ban. According to their directives, all slaughterhouses and stores of licensed goats, sheep, chicken and large animals should remain closed for 24 hours from midnight to midnight August 14th.

Mr. Thacker, MNS workers, said he instructed ET sales to continue on Thursday. Im I wanted them not to follow the ban. It is a great contradiction to ban something on the Day of Independence. Two important days for us on the Day of Independence and the Republic.

Bay Thackeray, who connects the ban to what he calls the ban by BJP to what he calls separatist policies, stated that the state government’s encouragement to encourage pigeon feeding and proposal to bring primary to the primary level in schools. “Such measures do not unite people, they divide them,” he said. The MNS chief, aiming at the Jain committee, insisted that the ban on pigeon feeding should be respected by everyone.

“Jain monks should also understand the dangers of pigeons. Doctors have explained the diseases they cause. There is a Supreme Court Decision on Kabutarkhanas. If one violates the ban on feeding them, the police should take action.

Prime Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced that the decision to ban the sale of meat on Independence Day was taken by the Congress government in 1988 and applied every year. “Even if the Uddhav Thackeray prime minister, I can show the 1988 government decision and similar orders given by municipal companies. However, the opposition now makes a political problem because they think it can help them in civilian elections.