Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 13: National Conference (NC) today asked the PDP-BJP Government led by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to bring in an ordinance to make amendments to RPC on the beef ban issue ahead of the approaching Eid-ul-Azha.
Senior N C leaders including Former Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather, provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani, Party spokesperson Junaid Azim Mattu, Central Zone president MLC Ali Mohammad Dar and district president Budgam Manzoor Ahmed Wani made the demand on behalf of the Party while speaking at a one-day membership drive convention held at Nagaam, Chrar-e-Sharief Constituency on Sunday.
Speaking on the occasion Senior NC Leader, Abdul Rahim Rather said the ordinance route was necessary since the Assembly session starts after Eid-ul-Azha. “While National Conference has made it clear that the Party will submit a bill to make necessary amendments to the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) in this context, the fact that Eid-ul-Azha falls before the start of the Assembly session makes it imperative on behalf of the government to pass an ordinance. Ordinances are meant for such urgencies and vital matters, he added.
Mufti Sahab should get the ordinance passed by his Cabinet and send it to the Governor as soon as possible so as to prevent an explosive situation on Eid-ul-Azha where traditionally cow sacrifices are commonplace all across the State”, the senior NC leader said while speaking at the party’s one-day convention.
NC provincial president, Nasir Aslam Wani said the ordinance was a moral obligation of the Mufti government towards the people of this State whose religious beliefs could be impinged on by the implementation of the ban on cow slaughter, as directed by the High Court. The NC provincial president also asked the Chief Minister and the State Law Minister to clarify how the State’s Deputy Advocate General was part of a PIL in which the Government was the respondent. “Did Mufti Sahab’s Government not ask the particular petitioner to withdraw from all cases against the State Government before appointing him as the Deputy Advocate General?
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