Assam CM Sarma turns Congress party's beef allegation on its head, dares them to demand a ban
Op IndiaChief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma declared that he would be willing to outlaw beef in Assam if state Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah wrote to him proposing it. His comments followed the Congress party’s claim that the Bharatiya Janata Party gave beef to voters to win the by-elections in the predominantly Muslim Samaguri constituency. A by-election last month saw the saffron party’s Diplu Ranjan Sarmah defeat Congress’s Tanzil who is the son of party’s Lok Sabha MP Rakibul Hussain, by 24,501 votes. मैं खुश हूं कि असम के अल्पसंख्यक कांग्रेस नेता गौमांस के विरोध में हैं। अगर वे मुझे पत्र लिखते हैं, तो हम सर्वसम्मति से गौमांस पर प्रतिबंध लगाने का निर्णय करेंगे। pic.twitter.com/9sYkxVvAoj — Himanta Biswa Sarma December 1, 2024 “But amidst sadness, Rakibul Hussain said one good thing that eating beef is wrong, isn’t it?