Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said, the NDA government will try its level best to bring in a countrywide ban on slaughter of cows by evolving a consensus. Mr Singh told a gathering of spiritual leaders of Shwetambar Jains in Indore that cow slaughter cannot be accepted in this country. He said, they will make all-out efforts to ban slaughter of cows and will also try hard to have a consensus for this purpose.
Referring to the cow slaughter ban in the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, the senior BJP leader said nobody should doubt the government’s commitment to prevent slaughter of cows. On the occasion, Acharya Shivmuni wanted the Centre to bring in a legislation in the current Budget Session for banning slaughter of buffaloes besides cows. To this, Mr Singh said the government needs to have an absolute majority in both Houses of Parliament to enforce complete ban on slaughter of cows.