BJP leaders in Bihar raked up the beef controversy more than once during the poll campaign there, including in a controversial advertisement a day before the last phase.

The controversy may sound new to recent politics, but the contempt for beef-eating within the Sangh Parivar isn’t.

RSS’ prime ideologue and second chief M.S. Golwalkar had expressed strong views against cow slaughter and beef-eating, to which an entire section in the Appendix of Bunch of Thoughts is devoted. He saw it as “mental slavery” and rejected research that said ancient Indians ate beef...............Read more

Source: The Hindu