BJP's 'yummy mummy problem', according to Asaduddin Owaisi

NEW DELHI: AIMIM's Asaduddin Owaisi has a way with words.

Here he is today, about the BJP and it's cow protection agenda: "BJP's hypocrisy is that in Uttar Pradesh cow is mummy but in the Northeast it's yummy."

Owaisi was talking about recent stringent cow protection moves in the BJP-ruled states of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh (UP) and the dilemma it may face in beef-eating, Christian Manipur, where it recently cobbled together a majority in the Assembly elections.

BJP's hypocrisy is that in Uttar Pradesh Cow is mummy but in the Northeast its yummy: Asaduddin Owaisi pic.twitter.com/5AKsYag6j4

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In UP, the new Adityanath government has come down heavily on illegal slaughterhouses, although critics say the chief minister's targets are meat-sellers in general and by extension the Muslim community.

Gujarat yesterday passed a bill that could jail a person for 14 years for "cow slaughter."

"We have equalled killing of a cow or cow progeny with killing of a human being," a Gujarat minister said.

So what will the BJP do in Manipur, is a question Owaisi and other BJP critics are asking.

They are accusing the BJP of hypocrisy, especially after recent reported BJP comments that there "would be no beef ban" in the Northeast. BJP leaders from Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram said to a Delhi newspaper that Uttar Pradesh-style beef politics would not come to the North East.

All three Christian-majority states are bound for elections in 2018. In fact, the Naga People's Front is a BJP ally in the Manipur government.