Pink revolution? Meat exports up in NDA regime

January 06, 2015 11:55

While attacking the UPA government ahead of last year's Lok Sabha polls, Narendra Modi fleshed out his public speeches by alleging the Congress-led Centre promoted a "pink revolution' in subsiding slaughterhouses and promoting meat exports through tax breaks.

However, once in power, the new prime minister and his BJP-led government chose pragmatism over politics, or so it seems from the official data on meat exports showing a spurt in the first eight months of this fiscal. Read more

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