Muslims can stay in India, but have to give up eating beef, says Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar

Chandigarh: In another controversy engulfing the beef ban, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that Muslims can live in India only if they give up eating beef. He also described the Dadri incident as the “result of a misunderstanding” and said “both sides” were wrong, as reported in The Indian Express.

"Muslims can stay, but in this country they will have to give up eating beef. The cow is an article of faith here," Khattar said.

He has also said that both sides committed mistakes in Dadri. “It should not have happened – from both sides. The victim had made a loose comment about the cow which hurt the sentiments of people who subsequently attacked him. But I say that attacking and killing the person was wrong,” Khattar was quoted as saying.

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“Culturally, we are democratic. Democracy has freedoms, but those freedoms have a limitation. Freedom of one person is only to the extent that it is not hurting another person,” he said.

“Eating beef hurts the sentiments of another community, even constitutionally you cannot do this. The Constitution says you cannot do something that offends me, I cannot do something that offends you,” he said.

Khattar also said that those who were responsible for the Dadri killling can be prosecuted under several sections of the law.

In the night of September 28, Mohammad Ikhlaq was lynched to death following rumours that his family has consumed beef in Bishada village of Dadri in Uttar Pradesh.