NEW DELHI: Haryana’s Health Minister Anil Vij claimed that people who cannot live without eating beef should not visit the state.
“There are some countries we don’t visit because food and drinking habits there don’t suit us. Likewise, those people who cannot live without eating beef should not come to Haryana,” Vij told reporters, when asked if the state would issue special permits to foreigners to consume beef in the state.
Chief Minister Khattar recently announced to relax the beef ban for foreigners in the state.
Haryana’s Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan bill was passed last year to ban beef slaughter and beef eating in the state.
According to the law, there is complete ban on cow slaughter and imprisonment from 3 to 10 years for killing the animal.