 "#BeefBan creates social media storm: Outrage, anger and threats to move to Goa")
Beef has banned in Maharashtra, and social media is very unhappy. A bill banning cow slaughter in Maharashtra, that has been pending for several years, received the President’s assent on Monday. This means that red meat lovers in the state will have to do without their beef chillie fry and steak. [caption id=“attachment_2132791” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Reuters[/caption] This law, twenty years in the waiting- was initiated during the previous Sena-BJP government in 1995. The bill was first submitted to the President for approval on January 30, 1996. However, subsequent governments at the Centre, including the BJP led NDA stalled it and did not seek the President’s consent for the bill to pass into law. However a delegation of seven state BJP MPs led by Kirit Somaiya, (MP from Mumbai North) had met the President in New Delhi recently and submitted a memorandum seeking assent to the bill. The memorandum said that the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill, 1995, passed during the previous Shiv Sena-BJP regime, was pending for approval for 19 years. Beef lovers all over the state have broken down in sheer disbelief, shock and heartbreak over this decision and as is customary in this day and age of social media, have taken to Twitter and Facebook to vent. In fact at the time of writing, #BeefBan was the second highest trend on Twitter India. Some people lambasted the government for trying to tell them what they could and could not eat. Others threatened to move to Goa. We take a look at some of the social media outrage: while we’re on the topic of banning food… lauki really hurts my religious sentiments. #banlauki
If #beef dresses provocatively & roams around on the street at night and gets eaten, that's it's own fault
— Rohini Rego (@RohRego) March 3, 2015
In a one stroke @Dev_Fadnavis has opened up a black market economy... Also, who are you to tell me what I can or cannot eat? #Beef
— Ashwin Mushran (@ashwinmushran) March 3, 2015
#Beef ban is #Maharashtra will only mean more
— Akshay mane (@akashaymane) March 3, 2015
tourism for Goa #justjoking
This isn't fair. What about chickens, goats and pigs? What happened to equal animal rights? #Beef #Maharashtra
— Dj (@dasguptaji) March 3, 2015
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More ShortsI always thought that if the BJP would want to ban a food item the first thing it would ban would be - Lotus Stem! #BeefBan
— Rashi (@rashi_kakkar) March 3, 2015
Oh yea India is a DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY and yet we are forced with these rubbish things like #BeefBan.. U don't eat, why stop others?
— Rumana (@RumanaNazarali) March 3, 2015
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