Eat beef, why celebrate it? says Venkaiah Naidu

February 19, 2018 22:21

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday raised the issues of 'beef ban' in the country, saying one can eat beef if he wants, but why to have festival for the same.

"You want to eat beef, then eat. Why festival? Similarly, a 'kiss festival', if you wish to kiss why do you need a festival or anyone's permission for it," Naidu said.

Naidu talking about beef festival could be directed to the reports of July 2017 when students of IIT-Madras held a beef festival inside the campus to protest against the cattle slaughter ban.

In the past too, Naidu had addressed the beef issue; while stressing on how food is an individual's choice he said that he is a strict non-vegetarian and nobody could tell him to what to eat or what not.

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