Cow slaughter ban will be a reality in Karnataka soon: BJP leader CT Ravi

Cow slaughter ban would be areality in Karnataka in the near future, the BJP nationalgeneral secretary C T Ravi said on Friday.

The former Karnataka Minister, who is in-charge ofparty affairs in Maharashtra, Goa and poll-bound Tamil Nadu,said a law banning cow slaughter would be passed in theupcoming Assembly session.

“Cow Slaughter Ban will be a reality in Karnataka inthe near future. I have asked Animal Husbandry Minister Sri@PrabhuChavanBJP to get “The Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter& Preservation of Cattle Bill” passed in the Cabinet andpresent the same in the upcoming Assembly Session,” theChikkamagaluru MLA tweeted.

Ravi had also said earlier this month that on thelines of Allahabad High Courts order, Karnataka would enact alaw banning religious conversions for the sake of marriage.

“We will not remain silent when Jihadis strip thedignity of our sisters,” he had said, adding, any one involvedin any act of conversion shall face severe and swiftpunishment.

The Allahabad High Court in its order on October 31said that religious conversion just for the sake of marriagewas not valid.

The court made the remark while dismissing a plea by anewly married couple in Uttar Pradesh that had approached itto direct police and the womans father not to disturb theirmarital life.

In the petition, it was stated that the couple gotmarried in July this year, but family members of the womanwere interfering in their marital life.

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