AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): The newly joined veteran opposition political leader with a shocking revelation said that the recently announced cow slaughter law is Supreme court’s order following by Govt of India to execute cow slaughter law. ‘The nationwide ban on selling cattle for slaughter at animal markets has raised a storm across India, but the Centre has defended the rules’, said Sinha. “In 2014, in response to a petition filed by animal rights activists, the Supreme Court had asked the government to set up a committee to address the problem of cattle smuggling on the border of India and Nepal. In 2015, the committee recommended the framing of new rules to regulate cattle markets, so that healthy cattle are sold only for legally authorised purposes. But what surprising is that in the committee representative from Tripura was also there to supporting the prohibitions of cow slaughter law and based on the support Supreme Court declared the conditions while cow sloughing in India”, said Sinha.

“Why centering the SC’s order oppositions are jumping from this point to that point, whereas Tripura itself supported this banning earlier led the SC to pass the order?”, Sinha said.

Once every five years, lakhs of Indian buffaloes are smuggled into Nepal – under allegedly inhumane transport conditions – to be sacrificed for the goddess Gadhimai. In 2014, Gauri Maulekhi, a trustee of People for Animals, a group headed by Menaka Gandhi, BJP leader and Minister of Women and Child Development, filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court against this cross-border smuggling.

In October 2014, the Court directed the Sashastra Seema Bal (the body governing the Indo-Nepal border), the governments of the bordering states and other Central government ministries to put a stop to the export of live cattle and buffaloes into Nepal. To arrive at a more long-term solution to the problem, the Court also called for the formation of a committee, under the chairmanship of the director general of the Sashastra Seema Bal.

This committee, comprising the chief secretaries of various state governments, the Animal Welfare Board of India and other respondents, held its first meetings in March and April 2015.

However, as Tripura said that the government not to execute new cattle slaughter rules, but it was Tripura Govt which led the order to pass in Supreme Court. Another question raises, can  Triura Govt unfollow SC’s order or it just a part of political propaganda for minority vote banks?