Social Media seems to be the place for all people to vent their anger against the government and pass judgement on issues or actions of the government which are not fully comprehended. The posts in the social media are taken as gospel truth and people react to that without understanding the issue on hand or do some basic search into that to find out the fact or the reasons behind the actions of the government.
Take for instance the charges for ATM withdrawal by SBI. Of course the institution also partly is to be blamed as the information was not fully conveyed in their press release. The SBI had made it clear a customer may make use of their e-wallet services named "SBI Buddy" for any of the services availed purchases made without the use of the debit card. In case the customer withdraws money from his account and there is no sufficient funds in the account, the system will automatically transfer from the e-wallet and the money will be disbursed. For such withdrawal the system will be charging a specified fee.
Now another issue that has cropped up is banning of Cow Slaughter. Cow slaughter ban. The political parties without realising that there is a provision in the constitution that the slaughter of cows and calves are banned under Article 48 have taken up a protest against the government of the day in the center. "In the Directive Principles (Article 48) enshrined in the Constitution, a duty has been cast upon the Government to take steps for preserving and improving the breeds, and prohibiting the slaughter of cows and calves. It is therefore, necessary to have legislation for stoppage of slaughter of cows. " Some of the states have already banned the slaughter of cows and calves. Some states have partially implemented it and in a few states there is no ban on such slaughter. Please refer to the map and the legend accompanying the same.
In today's paper I find a hilarious news that a few people were putting on masks of cattle to protest the move of the central government in implementing the provisions of the constitution. What the government has said in its directions is that the sale of cattle in markets for slaughter is banned. The cattle can be sold in the market only for rearing milch animals and farm animals. The cattle cannot be sold in the cattle market for slaughter purposes. It does not stop a farmer from selling his cattle that is no more productive to any one for slaughter. The slaughter houses can purchase animals from individuals instead of from a market place.
There was another argument put forth by a reputed veterinary scientist that the farmers will lose interest in rearing cattle especially the domestic varieties in the background of this ban. There can be nothing far from truth than this statement from a veterinary scientist. The ban enforced is for selling in the market in bulk for slaughter.
In the meanwhile a wing of the GOP in a state undertook slaughtering of the cow in broad day light and distributing the meat to the people who assembled there. There can be nothing more barbaric than this attitude of the wing of the GOP. It is akin to the beheading of a woman by her husband in broad day light in KSA for having killed their 7 year old son. Both are barbaric and gruesome. The one that happened in KSA is not our concern. But in a civilized society slaughtering the cattle, be it a cow, buffalo,ox, lamb,sheep etc, in broad day light in the presence of a huge crowd of public is nothing short of the people who lost all their sixth sense and relegated themselves to the lower living beings.
The people of a particular faith held a meeting in the city yesterday in a public road and burnt the effigy of the PM and cut the carcass of the slaughtered cattle and threw the pieces of meat on the road and left. What public decency is this especially during the month of their fasting? I have witnessed the hotels in a district predominantly populated by the people of that faith in a state where even the hotels owned by Hindus will be closed during day time in the period of fasting month of them. If you happen to visit any place in that district, you may not even get a cup of tea or a biscuit except in certain major towns. That is the respect shown to the feelings of the people of that faith by the majority community. But see what is happening in most of the places where the people of that faith participate in public slaughtering of cow on the road and distributing the meat just to show their protest against their partial understanding of the "slaughter ban". Highly disgusting.
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