Assam government to bring Cow Protection Bill in forthcoming budget session: Himanta Biswa Sarma

“The state government will bring the Cow Protection Bill in the forthcoming budget session of the assembly,” Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

The budget session of the Assam assembly will be started from July 12.

He also said a Hindu boy cheating a Hindu girl is also equally claimed to be Jihad.

“BJP had promised lot of things in the election manifesto. This time we will bring the Cow Protection Bill and next we will bring population bill. Apart from these we will also bring a bill, but we don’t want to use Love Jihad word. A Hindu man should not be cheated a Hindu girl also. It is not that, it will be called Love Jihad when a Muslim man cheats a Hindu girl, if a Hindu man will cheat a Hindu girl, he will also be punished. We will work against cheating. The new law will not only against Muslim, it will also against Hindu. My daughter, sister who belong to any religion, must not be cheated by anyone,” Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

Talking about the population policy, the Assam Chief Minister said the assembly had passed the state cabinet’s resolution over population policy long back.

“Our bill is already approved. We are distributing schemes in three ways – one is the basic scheme which will be availed by everybody, irrespective of number of children like as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, it will be for all. If we start a housing scheme, we may say it will be for up to two child. There will be some basic schemes which will be opened for all and there will some other schemes which will be opened for only two-child. Towards population control, some big announcements will be made in the next state budget,” Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

He further said, “Uttar Pradesh is trying to do it through an act and we have done that through resolution in assembly.”

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)