Its newly-elected government in Madhya Pradesh has slapped the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against three men accused of killing a cow at Khandwa. The Act allows preventive detention for months, if authorities are satisfied that the person is a threat to national security or law and order. The state government is playing to the gallery to “show” the people that it has a no-nonsense attitude towards cow slaughter. In MP, the cow slaughter ban has been in force since 2004 when the BJP was in power. Is CM Nath competing with former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s government, which had repeatedly invoked the NSA on cow slaughter charges?

Source: dna February 07, 2019 01:30 UTC