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The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) has condemned the notification of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change that regulates sale of cattle. The party termed the notification as "atrocious" and said the attempt by the Narendra Modi government is to give legal cover for "communal and divisive" agenda to impose a diet code on the country.
"It will destroy the livelihood of crores of farmers involved in animal husbandry, eliminate traditional cattle fairs, put an unfair burden on farmers to care for useless cattle. This further burdens the farmers who are increasingly resorting to distress suicides due to escalating input costs. It will also impact on the leather industry and the meat export industry affecting the livelihood of lakhs of people," a statement of the Polit Bureau said.
It added that the notification is an encroachment on the rights of the states under whose jurisdiction such issues fall. Kerala Government, led by the CPI(M), had said on Friday that it will challenge the notification legally.
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