Beef Ban Row likely to dominate JK Assembly Session

The issues of beef ban and rehabilitation of flood victims are expected to dominate the eight-day autumn session of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly beginning today. The session is set to be a stormy affair as opposition parties are geared up to corner the seven-month-old PDP-BJP coalition government on many issues, especially the controversial beef ban issue and delay in rehabilitation of flood victims. The National Conference, CPI(M) and independent MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid have submitted separate bills seeking revocation of a 150-year-old law that criminalises cow slaughter in the state.…

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