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Constitution allows me to eat: 'South Delhi' resident Mahua Moitra reacts to meat ban row
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Constitution allows me to eat: 'South Delhi' resident Mahua Moitra reacts to meat ban row

| @indiablooms | 06 Apr 2022, 12:14 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday reacted sharply to the row over the ban on selling of meat in South and Delhi Delhi during festival Navratri.

Moitra, who claims herself as a South Delhi resident, said she has been guaranteed the consumption of meat by the Constitution.

"I live in South Delhi. The Constitution allows me to eat meat when I like and the shopkeeper the freedom to run his trade. Full stop," the firebrand TMC Lok Sabha MP from West Bengal's Krishnanagar constituency tweeted.

The controversy was triggered after South Delhi Municipal Corporation Mayor Mukesh Suryan's letter demanding the closure of the meat shops in the area due to Navratri.

Officials have, however, said they were unaware of any such directive.

Though the national capital is run by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the South Delhi Municipality is governed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arch-rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the outfit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The AAP has raised questions on why the meat ban is imposed in South and East Delhi and not in Gurgaon, Faridabad and Noida.

"If meat can be bought by just crossing the border, then what is the purpose?" question raised by AAP MLA Atishi Marlena. 

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