Lalu On Beef

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Kerala House beef controversy and the Dalit killings in Haryana were examples of "channel-driven news as opposed to actual news". These and the row over reservation would have no impact on the ongoing Bihar election, he said.

At the height of a war of words over beef, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took a sharp dig at Lalu Prasad Yadav while campaigning in Bihar and was promptly attacked by Nitish Kumar for his "deafening silence" on the mob killing in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh.

As Bihar readies to vote for its next government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that "elections will be fought on the issues of development". The choice, he said, was between 'vikas (development) raj' and 'jungle raj', referring to the anti-BJP coalition led by Nitish Kumar in the state.

As beef and cow occupied centrestage in Bihar's electoral discourse, a Muzaffarpur court ordered a First Information Report to be registered against the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief, Lalu Prasad over his beef remarks.

BJP president Amit Shah today asked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi why they are "silent" on RJD chief Lalu Prasad's views on beef and asked them to come out openly whether they endorse it or not.

The BJP has launched an aggressive campaign in Bihar against Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad's remarks on eating beef. And in face of the concerted attack ahead of the coming elections, his party has requested Mr Prasad to stop commenting on the issue, sources in the RJD said.

Latching on to the RJD supremo Lalu Prasad's controversial remarks that the 'Hindus too eat beef', senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today promised to frame a legislation to ban cow slaughter in the state if NDA comes to power in Bihar Assembly elections.

Amidst outrage over the killing of a man in Uttar Pradesh over rumours he ate beef, Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad on Saturday stoked a controversy saying Hindus too eat beef and accused the BJP and its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS of communalising the issue, triggering a sharp response from the BJP.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Kerala House beef controversy and the Dalit killings in Haryana were examples of "channel-driven news as opposed to actual news". These and the row over reservation would have no impact on the ongoing Bihar election, he said.

At the height of a war of words over beef, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took a sharp dig at Lalu Prasad Yadav while campaigning in Bihar and was promptly attacked by Nitish Kumar for his "deafening silence" on the mob killing in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh.

As Bihar readies to vote for its next government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that "elections will be fought on the issues of development". The choice, he said, was between 'vikas (development) raj' and 'jungle raj', referring to the anti-BJP coalition led by Nitish Kumar in the state.

As beef and cow occupied centrestage in Bihar's electoral discourse, a Muzaffarpur court ordered a First Information Report to be registered against the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief, Lalu Prasad over his beef remarks.

BJP president Amit Shah today asked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi why they are "silent" on RJD chief Lalu Prasad's views on beef and asked them to come out openly whether they endorse it or not.

The BJP has launched an aggressive campaign in Bihar against Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad's remarks on eating beef. And in face of the concerted attack ahead of the coming elections, his party has requested Mr Prasad to stop commenting on the issue, sources in the RJD said.

Latching on to the RJD supremo Lalu Prasad's controversial remarks that the 'Hindus too eat beef', senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today promised to frame a legislation to ban cow slaughter in the state if NDA comes to power in Bihar Assembly elections.

Amidst outrage over the killing of a man in Uttar Pradesh over rumours he ate beef, Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad on Saturday stoked a controversy saying Hindus too eat beef and accused the BJP and its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS of communalising the issue, triggering a sharp response from the BJP.